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People turning up at the Milton Road Library polling station in Cambridge this morning (Thursday, May 2) had to cast their votes in the back of a car after there was trouble getting into the building. Quick thinking electoral services staff moved to plan B so that people could still vote in the Cambridge City Council and Police and Crime Commissioner elections when they discovered the library’s door entry codes did not work. Two of the volunteers’ cars were hastily turned into makeshift polling booths until 8am when someone arrived to open the building. A Cambridge City Council spokesperson sa…