Claim: At the May 2023 local elections 99.75% of people were able to cast their vote successfully.
Fact-check: Were 99.75% of people able to cast their vote when voter ID was first introduced? - Full Fact
Verdict: that isn't quite what the electoral commission's analysis found. it said "at least 0.25%" of people who reached a registration desk in a polling station in may 2023 were unable to vote because of voter id requirements, but warned 0.25% was an "underestimate" due to data quality issues and because some were reminded they needed id before being included in the data. that suggests the true proportion able to cast their vote may have been less than 99.75%.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Nasim Asl
Date published: 2024-05-07T00:00:00