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The election workers sat at chipped tables, dusty light filtering into the room through windows blocked out with cardboard and sheets of newspaper. They peered at piles of pink ballots, checking for mistakes. One worker fed the rejected stacks into an industrial shredder, which slammed a heavy guillotine blade through whole reams at a time.

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