Claim: Postal ballots date of birth section is being pre-filled with the year starting "19", and this could suppress young voter turnout.
Fact-check: Councils aren't using pre-filled postal ballots to suppress the youth vote - Full Fact
Verdict: postal voters should receive a ballot with the correct first two digits of their year of birth prefilled; this is to prevent people from erroneously writing the wrong date. if they do receive a ballot with the wrong first two digits, they should just cross them out and write the correct ones.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2019-11-26T00:00:00