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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Martin Fricker & John Stevens

'At age 93 I've never missed voting - but voter ID will force me to for the first time'

A 93-year-old cancer sufferer says the new photo ID rule will exclude her from voting in tomorrow’s local elections.

Oonagh Preece first went to a polling station in 1950 and has voted in every local and general election since. But the furious mum of three said the requirement for photo ID at polling stations now excludes her from democracy.

The retired horse trainer said: “I’ve been voting all of my life, we all did in our family. Even my old granny, she would insist on getting to vote every time she could.

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