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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Dan Bloom

Councils ordered to buy 40,000 mirrors for 'warped priority' ID checks on voters

Forty thousand mirrors will be bought by the state to carry out “warped priority" ID checks on voters.

All Brits will have to show photo ID to vote for the first time at next May’s local elections after a Supreme Court challenge failed.

Campaigners already fear the £12m-a-year anti-fraud drive, despite a tiny number of fraud cases, will cut vulnerable groups out of democracy.

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