USA Today reported earlier today that 230,000 New Mexicans had voted through early and absentee voting. And that high number seemed to be borne out by numbers confirmed by the New Mexico Secretary of State’s office on Wednesday afternoon.

But stop the presses!

The Secretary of State’s office revised its numbers to say that the nearly 169,500 — 89,213 Democrats, 60,548 Republicans and 19,734 independents — who were listed as having voted by absentee ballot represented the number of people who had requested absentee ballots, not those who had returned them and voted by absentee.

Secretary of State spokesman James Flores said he did not know how many people had actually voted by absentee ballots. He added that the numbers for New Mexicans who had cast ballots at early voting sites– about 61,000 — was correct.