Petition · Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

Make all official travel passes acceptable as voter ID

Closed 34 signatures

What the petition asks

I would like the government to ensure that young people are not being discriminated against by being unable to use their local/devolved government-issued travel passes as ‘acceptable photo ID’ for voting, while those over 60 are permitted to use their travel passes.
The list of acceptable photo ID includes some travel passes issued by local/devolved government, Eg freedom pass. However travel passes issued for young people are not included. To us, there doesn’t seem to be a logical reason why, and this should be rectified so any photocard travel pass issued by local/devolved governments is accepted. Everyone should have equal access to vote.

Timeline

8 Dec 2025 Petition opened for signatures
8 Jun 2026 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 34
Status Closed
Department Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
Opened 8 Dec 2025
Closed 8 Jun 2026

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 29 Aug 2026.