TALLYCAT01 VOTER-ID CALCULATION RECORD
Checked 14 October 2026

ORIGINAL DATA
The original Electoral Commission workbooks were parsed read-only; source hashes were unchanged.
2024 Sheet1: column D offence, E outcome, F election
2025 Sheet1: column C offence, D outcome, E election

2024 POLLING-STATION PERSONATION
Exact rows: 4, 176, 189, 223, 279, 284, 353
Count: 7 allegation entries
Election types: 5 general election, 2 local
Outcomes: 3 no offence found, 2 insufficient evidence, 1 no evidence found, 1 locally resolved with police advice
These are reported entries, not seven proven offences or seven fraudulent votes.

2025 PERSONATION
Rows: 144, 151, 198
All three concern postal votes
Outcomes: 1 conviction, 1 under investigation, 1 no further action
No polling-station personation entries are recorded.
Reporting files can include earlier-election cases; do not treat them as clean election-year cohorts.

VOTER-ID ACCESS ESTIMATES
2024 report, printed page 11 Table 1
Approximately 50,000 initially turned away without accepted ID
Approximately 16,000 did not return with accepted ID by close of poll
Scope: Great Britain general election, records returned by 612 of 632 constituencies
These are rounded recorded estimates, not every discouraged voter or a causal estimate of turnout lost.

NO CAUSAL COMPARISON
Do not divide the seven allegation entries by the 16,000 estimated voters to judge the policy's effect.
They have different units, geography and election coverage.
No future fraud prediction or motive finding follows from these records.

SECONDARY SOURCE DIFFERENCES
2024 raw voting/registration category counts: 87/43; summary webpage: 84/46
2025 raw locally resolved: 82 plus one blank outcome; summary webpage: 83
2025 webpage: 149/265 no further action is printed 57%, while count arithmetic gives about 56.23%
2025 webpage: 83/265 locally resolved is printed 30%, while count arithmetic gives about 31.32%
No source field was silently corrected. These unrelated discrepancies do not alter the seven matched entries.
Clarification enquiry drafted but unsent.

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