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> The Government is making councils buy 40,000 mirrors to put inside polling stations in order to comply with its own laws requiring voters to show ID, i can reveal.

> It has now emerged that this will involve the purchase of a new mirror for every one of the 40,000 polling stations in the UK ahead of the local elections scheduled for next May. Minister Andrew Stephenson said in a response to a written parliamentary question: "We estimate that one mirror will need to be purchased for each polling station and assume that there are 40,000 polling stations based on the 2019 elections."

> "It's vital people's needs are addressed when attending a polling station, but it's not just the lack of mirrors and privacy booths that will deter voters but the unnecessary requirement to show photo ID instead.".

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