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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Noah Vickers

Government pledges 'thorough' review of voter ID law and could scrap it entirely

Photo ID laws which have stopped thousands of registered voters from casting their ballots in recent elections will be “evaluated” and could even be scrapped entirely, the new Government has revealed.

The requirement for people to show ID before voting was introduced by the previous Tory Government in 2022 “to strengthen the integrity of the electoral system”.

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