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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Ben Glaze

'Pressing need' for local elections review amid fears photo ID will stop people voting

Elections watchdogs will review the launch of voter ID after next month’s crunch ballots.

The Electoral Commission analyses how each vote is run - and said this year’s vote where voters in England must show photo identification to be allowed to exercise their democratic right meant its review would be “even more pressing”.

The body’s communications director Craig Westwood told the BBC: “Post-election we will be doing an independent evaluation of how it went.

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