CLAYTON • There was no dramatic spike in new voter registrations in Ferguson, St. Louis County election officials said Tuesday.

The county's election board had previously told some news outlets that 3,287 people were registered to vote in Ferguson since the unrest there began. Tuesday, officials said that number is actually just 128.

Ferguson's total population is about 21,000.

Rita Days, the county's election director, said the discrepancy came from a check of the wrong database. The original search, she said, included voters in Ferguson who had modified their registration in some way (address, death, et cetera) —not just newly register voters.

"We have looked at it by hand and we now have the right numbers," Days said.

From Aug. 11, around when the unrest in Ferguson began after the shooting death of Michael Brown, to today the city has registered 128 voters.

In that time, however, more voters have been registered in the surrounding areas and the county as a whole.

Days said 5,234 new voters have been registered in the county since Aug. 11.

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