Claim: 819 people were turned away across eight council areas during voter ID trials.
Fact-check: Voter ID scheme: far more turned away than convicted of electoral fraud - Full Fact
Verdict: across all ten trial areas in 2019, 1,968 people were turned away for not having the correct id. of those people, 740 did not return to vote.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Joël Reland
Date published: 2019-10-16T00:00:00