Cardboard polling booths make their debut in Cornwall

The BBC reports:

Voters in Cornwall will be able to use the new design, alongside the more traditional wooden type.

Cornwall county council has bought 700 of the recyclable booths, similar to those used in Australia and the US, costing £15 each.

The council’s deputy elections manager Dave Cunningham said they looked “funky”…

Wooden booths cost about six times the price of cardboard ones, at £92.

Cornwall Council was unable to find a suitable cardboard booth supplier in the UK and it was deemed too expensive to import them from the US. So it hired architects from Exeter to create a design.

See the full story for another photo of the polling booth, this time sedately sitting on the floor.