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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Combined Authorities (Mayoral Elections) Order 2017 No. 67
25.—(1) The returning officer must provide a sufficient number of polling stations and, subject to the following provisions of this rule, must allot the electors to the polling stations in such manner as the returning officer thinks most convenient.
(2) One or more polling stations may be provided in the same room.
(3) The polling station allotted to electors from any parliamentary polling district wholly or partly within the electoral area must, in the absence of special circumstances, be in the parliamentary polling place for that district, unless that place is outside the electoral area.
(4) The returning officer must provide each polling station with such number of compartments as may be necessary in which the voters can mark their votes screened from observation.
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