diff --git a/src/validation.cpp b/src/validation.cpp
--- a/src/validation.cpp
+++ b/src/validation.cpp
@@ -1068,9 +1068,16 @@
         // Verify signature
         CScriptCheck check(coin.GetTxOut(), tx, i, flags, sigCacheStore, txdata,
                            &txLimitSigChecks, pBlockLimitSigChecks);
+
+        // If pvChecks is not null, move the input check and skip running it.
+        // The sigcheck count will not be added to the total.
         if (pvChecks) {
             pvChecks->push_back(std::move(check));
-        } else if (!check()) {
+            continue;
+        }
+
+        // If pvChecks is null, run the check; if it fails, try to figure why.
+        if (!check()) {
             ScriptError scriptError = check.GetScriptError();
             // Compute flags without the optional standardness flags.
             // This differs from MANDATORY_SCRIPT_VERIFY_FLAGS as it contains
@@ -1097,8 +1104,8 @@
             }
 
             // MANDATORY flag failures correspond to
-            // TxValidationResult::TX_CONSENSUS. Because CONSENSUS failures
-            // are the most serious case of validation failures, we may need to
+            // TxValidationResult::TX_CONSENSUS. Because CONSENSUS failures are
+            // the most serious case of validation failures, we may need to
             // consider using RECENT_CONSENSUS_CHANGE for any script failure
             // that could be due to non-upgraded nodes which we may want to
             // support, to avoid splitting the network (but this depends on the
@@ -1109,6 +1116,8 @@
                           ScriptErrorString(scriptError)));
         }
 
+        // We reached this point if pvChecks is null and the check succeeded for
+        // this input; add its sigcheck count to the total.
         nSigChecksTotal += check.GetScriptExecutionMetrics().nSigChecks;
     }