First photo ID, now votes for expats: the Tories are showing us exactly what election rigging looks like | Polly Toynbee

The government is deterring young and poor people from voting - but no amount of gerrymandering will save its bacon It may have passed you by that last week was Welcome to Your Vote week, encouraging sixth-formers to get excited about a vote denied to them. "We want to show young people that politics and democracy impacts everything around them," says the Electoral Commission. Yes, indeed it does. But don't tell them that even when they turn 18, only a few hundred thousand votes in marginal seat...