Anyone know more about this BT "uk identity verification" scheme?

[Ian G Batten]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Brian Morrison wrote:
> future with potentially more totalitarian regimes coming to power. I
> assume that these ballot papers are all stored away somewhere and thus
> would be subject to review by hostile parties.

http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm199798/cmselect/cmhaff/768/768ap13.htm

I'd want rather more tha paranoic assertion before I start believing
there are warehouses of ballot papers dating back to Suez or something.
I guess they'll be in the Woodhead Tunnel, in wagons hauled by the
Strategic Reserve of steam locomotives.

ian