Corrupted index maybe?

>OK , call me stupid but can anyone explain this.
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>I was asked to find the number of records in a table with a particular status. I did a count
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>COUNT TO x FOR elecstat = "M"
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>The result = 64085
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>So, they wanted to look at them in a separate table so I issued the following command:
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>COPY TO c:\temp\movedele FOR elecstat = "M"
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>I was surprised to see there were only 63879 records copied.
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>HUH?
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>There are 9 records marked for deletion, there is only the one table opened, deleted is set off.
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>What am I missing?
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>Thanks
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>Barb