Will apt-get dist-upgrade -y confirm updates with verification issues?

I would like to have chron run my updates periodically and I have been told that the command: apt-get dist-upgrade -y should accept the updates. My concern is that numerous times when manually updating I have run into verification failures and I only wish to automate this process if I am sure that packages with verification issues are not installed. Can anyone confirm that -y will not respond "yes" to the prompt "proceed without verification"? I am ideally hoping for a pretty definitive reference and/or a way for me to test this myself. Thanks.