 From the remaining 366,175 candidates, the commission accepted 284,814 and refused 81,361 candidates for various reasons.An important issue with the slovakization procedure was, that the "reslovakized" Hungarians did not take the forcible change of ethnicity seriously, because it is impossible to force someone to forget his culture and language suddenly.A Slovak journalist wrote the following about the "reslovaklized" city of Nové Zámky ()