Claim: A town with a voting population of less than 7,000 had 41,000 votes counted in a local election. This was then overturned by the High Court.
Fact-check: A mistake did mean a town with a voting population of around 6,400 did have an election where 41,000 votes were counted - Full Fact
Verdict: this is true—a mistake in the local council elections led to this happening in highworth, wiltshire in may 2019.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Rachael Krishna
Date published: 2020-01-28T00:00:00