Contrary to an earlier announcement by Acorn and an affiliated charity, called Project Vote, the real number of newly registered voters nationwide is around 450,000 — not 1.3 million, reports The New York Times.

Project Vote’s executive director, Michael Slater, said in an interview that the remainder includes registered voters who were simply changing their addresses, as well as nearly 400,000 names that were rejected by election officials for a variety of violations, including duplicate registrations, incomplete forms, and fraudulent submissions.

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