ID cards are not required when voting, the Chief Electoral Commissioner said yesterday, contradicting Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Abela. "You do not need any ID cards to vote. You only need your official voting documents issued by the Electoral Commission," the commissioner, Joseph Church, said. "And, as the law currently stands, you can vote without the newly introduced ID card in elections." He was reacting to Mr Abela's plea for those who have not signed up for their new ID card to do so as soon as possible as this was required when casting one's ballot. Speaking with the Times of Malta on the sidelines of a press conference on the new ID card roll-out last week, Mr Abela had said: "When the population is called upon to vote in a number of elections which are held, you are required to take your valid ID card… So naturally every person who has not updated their ID card, the appeal is for them to do this as soon as possible, as it is used for several reasons, among them, to go and present, along with voting documents." Mr Abela had added that, prior to the introduction of the new cards, the validity of previous ID documents used to be extended through a legal notice to allow...
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