The UK government’s plan to introduce voter ID is intended to stamp out the “inexcusable potential” for someone to steal another person’s vote at the polling station, a Cabinet Office spokesman has said. Responding to calls from the opposition Labour party and mostly left-wing groups for the government to drop the election reform plan, the spokesman said on Thursday: “In our current electoral system, there is inexcusable potential for someone to cast another’s vote at the polling station. “Stealing someone’s vote is stealing their voice and that is why we are bringing forward legislation to stamp out the potential for fraud.” A group of 17 civil society groups urged Prime Minister Boris Johnson to drop the plans, arguing they would pull up the drawbridge for millions of voters who lack photographic ID and turn polling station workers into “de facto bouncers.” The Labour party endorsed the call. Cat Smith, Labour’s …