The battleground state of North Carolina removed 747,000 people from the state’s list of registered voters over the past 20 months, officials said in a press release on Thursday.

The North Carolina State Board of Elections said that of the 747,274 people removed, 89.2% were due to duplicates, an inactive status for not participating in the past two federal elections, or death.

Nine people were identified as possible noncitizens, a number that one state conservative said could be an undercount. While North Carolina requires all voters to be U.S. citizens, proof of citizenship isn’t required to register.

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