Nearly 8,000 Cornish voters could have missed out on June's Brexit referendum because of a change in the way the electoral register is compiled.
Election officials at Cornwall Council have disclosed in response to a request under the Freedom of Information Act that 7,783 voters were struck off because of the switch to Individual Electoral Registration (IER) between June 2014 and December 2015.
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