The UK government said on Friday it plans to boost election integrity by stopping postal vote harvesting, limiting proxy voting, and clamping down on voter intimidation. This follows the announcement earlier this week that voters will be required to show photographic ID before being issued ballots at a polling station. Under new measures announced on Friday, “postal vote harvesting” will be stopped by limiting the number of postal votes that a person may hand in on behalf of others. Currently, anyone is able to collect postal votes from any number of electors and hand them in at a polling station, which the government said presents a risk of postal votes being appropriated and stolen, or voters completing postal ballot papers under duress. The new law will also ban party campaigners from handling postal votes altogether, making it a criminal offence. The new rules will extend the secrecy provisions to absentee …