http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/16/do-i-need-my-national-insurance-number-to-register-to-vote
It is not essential to provide your national insurance (NI) number when registering to vote.
If you don’t know your NI number – which can usually be found on payslips or official letters about benefits, tax or pensions – you can just say soby giving a simple explanation.
It is then up to your local council to verify your identity.
Although online registration closes for the majority of voters on 7 June, local electoral registration offices have longer to verify your identity.
Whatever you do make sure you register to vote. You can think about who to vote for later.
“Under the new online registration system it’s just one of the ways you can have your identity verified,” says Oliver Sidorczuk, director of Bite the Ballot. “If you fill in the application, without your national insurance number, it’s your local council’s duty to verify you.”
According to the Cabinet Office, electoral registration officials will then contact you if they are unable to verify the application using other local data sources.
If they cannot verify you, the local electoral registration office will contact you to request further identification. (my emphasis)
This will likely be a photograph of your passport, or driving licence.
“Most progressive councils should, and I would suggest must, allow you to email in smartphone photos of your passport and driving licence,” (my emphasis) says Sidorczuk.
Less than 25% of the population know their NI number, estimates Ben Page, head of polling organisation Ipsos Mori. If you are one of them, all you have to do when filling in the online form is explain why don’t know it. You can simply write: “I don’t know where it is.”
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