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Justice Department charges 28 California green card holders with election offenses

How this story moved: how many newsrooms carried it at each run, when each one picked it up, how our summary's headline changed, and which figures and names held from the first reports to the latest. Everything here is counted from the coverage; none of it is a judgement of anyone's motives.

OUTLETS CARRYING THE STORY, RUN BY RUN

0 16 32 20 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 23 Oct 24 Oct 25 Oct 26 Oct 27 Oct 28 Oct 20 Oct 00:17 UTC · Justice Department charges 28 California permanent residents over alleged illegal voting 20 Oct 06:14 UTC · Justice Department charges 28 California green card holders with election offenses

HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 2 HEADLINES

  1. 20 Oct, 00:17 UTC

    Justice Department charges 28 California permanent residents over alleged illegal voting

  2. 20 Oct, 06:14 UTC

    Justice Department charges 28 California green card holders with election offenses

WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER

From the first reports to the latest

  • Nothing ran from the first third of the coverage to the last.

Entered the story later

  • Nothing new took hold after the first third.

Figures reported with different numbers

  • foreign nationals: 28 (3 from 19 Oct 15:02) → 11 (1 from 20 Oct 03:15)
  • green card: 28 (3 from 19 Oct 18:52) → 11 (1 from 20 Oct 00:45)
  • registered voters: 23.1 million (1 from 19 Oct 18:52) → 227 million (1 from 20 Oct 03:11) → 23 million (1 from 21 Oct 14:04)

Matched by pattern, not read: a different number can be a correction, a rising count, or two different counts.