Election Reform, Fraud,& Related News Thursday, June 15

Election Reform, Fraud,& Related News Thursday, June 15

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Head of new voter database resigns
Leon County critic says system still not ready
By Bill Cotterell
DEMOCRAT POLITICAL EDITOR

The project manager of the mammoth Florida Voter Registration System - a statewide database with computer records of about 14 million voters - is resigning less than 90 days before the statewide primaries.

Sanford "Sandy" Brill said Wednesday the system is in good shape and Florida is the first big state to comply with requirements of the federal Help America Vote Act for preventing voters from being turned away from the polls. But Leon County Elections Supervisor Ion Sancho said his employees are finding bugs in the system that might lead to long lines of angry voters in the Sept. 5 primary and Nov. 7 general election.

I don't know where Ion is getting his facts from, but they certainly aren't correct," Brill said in an interview monitored by an aide to Secretary of State Sue Cobb. Sancho has had several run-ins with the Division of Elections and companies making voting equipment.

Brill said he signed on in late 2003 to set up the FVRS database and plans to take early retirement June 26 and become an independent contractor. He also said he looks forward to more free time, after a long run of 14- to 18-hour days immersed in the system.

http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060615/CAPITOLNEWS/606150312

Mo. Governor Signs Voter ID Bill

POSTED: 4:18 pm CDT June 14, 2006
UPDATED: 4:47 pm CDT June 14, 2006

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A bill requiring people to show a photo identification card before they can vote starting this fall was signed into law by Gov. Matt Blunt Wednesday.

Republican supporters said the change is necessary to prevent fraud in elections and to give people confidence that legitimate votes aren't being watered down.

Democratic opponents said the state's current requirements are sufficient and that this new one will especially harm the poor, elderly and disabled who may not have driver's licenses. A legal challenge is expected soon.

Free photo identification cards could be issued to the estimated 170,000 voting-age Missourians who don't have one. People without a photo identification card could cast a provisional ballot, which would count if their identities are verified.

http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/politics/9371328/detail.html

Officials React to Saline County Voting Problems
Wednesday June 14, 2006 6:12pm Reporter: Michelle Rupp Posted By: Amanda Manatt

Saline County - The election did not exactly go off without a hitch last night. Problems in Saline County forced the election commission there to finish counting ballots Wednesday morning by hand. The unofficial results were not in until around 11:00 Wednesday morning.

Election Commission officials say the problem was a ballot misprint, which they say prevented the scanner from reading the ballots. ES&S is responsible for the printing of the ballots. Commission officials say the problem was that some, not all, of Tuesday's ballots were cut crookedly, and as a result the machines were not able read them.

(Greg Brown, Election Commissioner) "The technician was here first thing at that point it was determined that it was the ballots being misprinted, not the machine itself."

That's why several boxes were counted the old fashion way -- by hand.

http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0606/336291.html

Some Counties Reporting Runoff Troubles
Wednesday June 14, 2006 12:56am

Little Rock (AP) - Voting in Tuesday's runoffs went smoothly in most Arkansas counties, although there were some glitches. Ten counties shunned electronic machines in favor of paper ballots,another county gave up on the electronic machines by mid-afternoon,and another county suspended ballot counting when a scanner wouldn't work.

Natasha Naragon of the secretary of state's office said Stone County, which didn't use electronic machines in the May 23rd primary, tried to start the day by using the machines provided by vendor Election Systems and Software. Naragon said that, among other problems, election workers were unable to access the electronic ballot using the touch-screen machines.

Cross, Desha, Garland, Jefferson, Lonoke, Phillips, Pope, Pulaski, Randolph, Searcy and Stone counties opted not to use the electronic machines. Their decisions followed a problem-plagued primary that led to late nights and recounts.

Several of the counties, including Lonoke and Phillips, took days to tabulate results from the primary. Naragon said Saline County officials had trouble counting votes after the polls closed. She said an optical scanner that reads ballots wasn't working properly, and after attempts to fix the problem were unsuccessful, county officials went home for the night. Naragon said Saline County's officials planned to resume their count around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday.

http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0606/336010.html

Recount brings good, bad news

By Ed Galucki
Staff Writer

Whether the results of a ballot recount in two races from the May 23 preferential primary were welcomed or not depended on perspective. For the challengers the news on Saturday was not good, but for the winners it meant they could move on without the shadow of doubt that hangs over a challenged count.

Perhaps the happiest ones over the recount were the members of the election commission. The fact that the numbers in the recount matched the results of the primary is gratifying, Jean McCanliss, election commission chairman, remarked Monday.

This should go a long way to restoring confidence in the new electronic voting machines, McCanliss said.

The May 23 Preferential Primary was the first time the county used the new electronic voting systems obtained under the Help America Vote Act of 2002. Though some difficulties were expected, no one foresaw the problems that brought the count to a four-day halt.

http://www.cabotstarherald.com/Pages/06-14-06/Recount%20brings%20good%20bad%20news.htm

Parties bicker over voter lists
Disagree on how to fix inaccuracies
By Niki Kelly
The Journal Gazette


INDIANAPOLIS – A behind-the-scenes dispute between Republican and Democratic election officials over inaccurate voter rolls has been simmering since April, and now has boiled over into sharply worded public rhetoric from both state parties.

The Indiana Democratic Party issued a release Monday in which State Chairman Dan Parker said he would not sign off on a plan to purge the statewide voter registration list unless Secretary of State Todd Rokita solves problems in the current election cycle.

The Indiana Republican Party fired back Tuesday, saying Democrats are out to block election changes and prefer the voting laws of Chicago – a city infamous for voting early and voting often.

The disagreement actually started back in April when Rokita – the state’s chief elections officer – sent a letter to Parker and Republican State Chairman Murray Clark about his plan to rid the state’s voter registration list of inaccuracies.

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/fortwayne/news/local/14823788.htm

Election woes said to be correctable
A substantial delay in reporting Madison County returns after the June 6 primary elections stemmed in part from electronic memory cards being left overnight in polling places, officials said.

After a generally successful inaugural run for the Diebold electronic voting machines, county election and political party officials are seeing what can be learned from delays — including the opening of polling places — during the Democrat Party Primary.

“From the Secretary of State to the circuit clerk to poll workers, all of us were doing it for the first time. I knew there would be some glitches,” said Madison County Democrat Party Chairman Rob Martin, who supervised the election as head of the party’s executive committee.

Where poll workers may have had the biggest trouble is with the closing procedure of the new Diebold voting machines.

http://www.onlinemadison.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=17067&TM=81538.35

Doubts plague e-vote systems
Coalition of opponents says computers are not secure; backers contend the threat is low.
By DAVE HELLING
The Kansas City Star

In just eight weeks, most Kansas City voters will cast their first ballots on electronic machines, assuming they are accurate, convenient and safe.

But a loose coalition of computer scientists, political activists, and election experts says electronic voting is none of those things. In the media and the courts, the opponents insist electronic ballots are “inherently untrustworthy” and should be scrapped.

“It’s faith-based voting,” said Christi Clemons Hoffman, who has fought electronic voting here for at least a year. “You just have to trust that everybody’s doing their job.”

State and local election officials — Democrats and Republicans — have heard those criticisms for months, but say they’re misguided. “It’s fear of the unknown,” said Kansas City’s Democratic election director, Sharon Turner Buie.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/politics/14820785.htm

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AARP members give a thumbs-up to touch-screen voting
By Mark Schlinkmann
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
06/14/2006


About 100 members of the St. Charles County AARP chapter got their first look Wednesday at the latest phase of the county's new voting system: the touch-screen machine to be introduced at polling places for the Aug. 8 primary.

"I think it's really easy," Rosemary Vaccaro, 82, said after trying out the equipment following a demonstration by County Elections Director Rich Chrismer.

Vaccaro said, however, she wasn't sure whether she'll use the touch screen - which is similar to a bank ATM - or stick with the optical-scan procedure that the county began using for the April municipal election.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stcharles/story/453C12F40B71E2568625718E00167830?OpenDocument

A look at major provisions in Missouri's voter ID bill
Associated Press

A look at major provisions in the voter identification bill signed Wednesday by Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt.

ID REQUIREMENTS

_ Requires all voters to show photo identification issued by Missouri or the federal government to cast a ballot starting in the November general election.

_ Allows those without a proper photo ID to cast a provisional ballot until November 2008. The ballot would count if people sign an affidavit, present certain forms of identification and their signatures match those on file with the election authority.

_ Allows people lacking any form of identification to cast provisional ballots until November 2008 if two election judges sign an affidavit that they know them.

_ Allows the disabled, those with religious objections and senior citizens - those born before 1941 - to cast provisional ballots without providing a proper photo ID at any election.

http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/state/14818630.htm

Clerk outraged at voter ID mishap
By TOM TREWEEK/OBSERVER STAFF REPORTER

There is good and bad news stemming from the Sandoval County election canvassing efforts.

The good news is for former Bernalillo Mayor Charles Aguilar, who appears to be ahead with the inclusion of the provisional ballots. The bad news is what the Sandoval County clerk saw on a visit to Santa Fe.

On a recent trip to Santa Fe, county clerk Sally Padilla saw something that made her feel like crying, she said.

"I saw crates and crates and crates and boxes and boxes full of returned mail with the (voter) ID cards at the Secretary of States' office," she said.

http://www.observer-online.com/articles/2006/06/14/news/story2.txt

Residents try out voting machines
Another company plans demo June 20

By Anne Ju
Journal Staff

ITHACA — Curious onlookers filed into Ithaca Town Hall's board room Wednesday, peering at a set of machines that could determine the future of Tompkins County elections.

The machines, manufactured by Sequoia Voting Systems, were just two of the many that local residents will have a chance to try out this year in preparation for new federal standards that will replace the old, lever-system voting machines.

Provisions of the federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA), passed in 2002, will require Tompkins County and other municipalities to order new, state-certified voting machines of their choosing by the end of this year, said Stephen DeWitt, Tompkins County Board of Elections Democratic Commissioner. That way, they'll have the new equipment in time to train election inspectors and educate the public before the November 2007 elections.

http://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060615/NEWS01/606150338/1002/NEWS01
Through HAVA, New York state has allocated $1.06 million in federal funds to Tompkins County for new voting machines, according to DeWitt.

Computer glitch slows results
The Forum
Published Wednesday, June 14, 2006

When the polls closed Tuesday, the focus was on a computer glitch rather than race winners.

At the Cass County Courthouse, computers weren’t recognizing the cards holding election results, said County Auditor Mike Montplaisir.

The problem was resolved by 9:20 p.m.

Montplaisir said the system has been used for six years, and tests done prior to election day showed no problems.

http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=129884§ion=News

Voter rule fixes filed

Blackwell addresses registration issues
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Ted Wendling
Plain Dealer Bureau

Columbus - Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, under fire for imposing draconian rules governing the activities of voter-registration groups, filed rule changes late Wednesday intended to clarify two issues of contention.

One change removed the definition of compensation, which previously had been described as "a payment or a gift of any amount."

Lawyers representing the Ohio Democratic Party and voter-registration organizations had argued that "any amount" meant that a League of Women Voters volunteer who accepted a can of soda or a sandwich would be considered a paid registrar, forcing the person to undergo training and be subject to felony penalties for elections fraud.

The second change makes it clear that it's OK for registrars to mail voter forms to a board of elections or the secretary of state.

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1150360359279240.xml&coll=2

Glitches creep up in vote machines
System problems snarl final tallies in Horry elections
By Travis Tritten
The Sun News

The polls closed at 7 p.m., but by 1 a.m. final results were still nowhere in sight.

As the wait for Horry County's primary election tallies turned from minutes into hours, it was clear Tuesday night the county's new voting machines had hit a snag - several snags, in fact.

About 25 to 30 touch-screen voting machines in 12 precincts locked up, had dead batteries or were improperly shut down, according to Horry County spokeswoman Kelly Brosky.

County staff had to travel back to precincts, pick up the machines and haul them to the supervisor of elections office in Conway on Tuesday night.

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/local/14822189.htm

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Faulty count fails to change election result


JASON SPENCER, Staff Writer
Published June 15, 2006

Primary election results for at least one precinct were misreported in the unofficial count Tuesday night, and correcting those results has not changed the outcome of any race.

The unofficial results distributed at the Spartanburg County Voter Registration office following the election listed wrong numbers for the Mount Moriah Precinct, which has its polling place at the south-side church of the same name.

(snip)

After those numbers were questioned by the Herald-Journal Wednesday, Barbara Blanchard, director of the Spartanburg County Office of Registration and Elections, said, "There's obviously a discrepancy" with the Mount Moriah numbers. Later in the afternoon, those numbers were changed.

(snip)

Voting machines used here are manufactured by the company Election Systems and Software, which goes by ES&S. Blanchard said she contacted the company Wednesday, and she was able to retrieve the Mount Moriah results and enter them manually.

http://www.goupstate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060615/NEWS/606150358/1051/NEWS01

Suit filed over electronic voting machines
6/14/2006 4:12 PM
By: News 8 Austin Staff

A group of concerned voters wants to make sure your vote counts.

They filed an injunction that would prevent the state of Texas from using electronic voting machines that don't give voters written proof their ballot was registered.

The petition claims using these machines violates voter's rights under the Texas Constitution and the Texas Election Code.

Protestors say there are often mistakes that could eventually lead to tampering and fraud.

http://www.news8austin.com/content/headlines/?ArID=164294&SecID=2

At this precinct, they traded the bulky poll book for a sleek laptop

BY ANDREW PETKOFSKY
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER

Jun 14, 2006

WILLIAMSBURG -- Voters here yesterday took part in a revolution.

That's because Williamsburg used the low-voter-turnout Democratic primary to become the state's first locality to check in voters without using bulky, computer-printed poll books.

"We're going completely paperless!" General Registrar Dave Andrews said when he called to boast the city was about to make Virginia election history.

While electronic ballots have become commonplace in recent years, the voter check-in process required that election officials use voluminous poll books printed on fan-fold computer paper to verify voters' identities.

http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149188458549

Posted June 15, 2006

postcrescent.com

Winnebago board set to reconsider voting machines

Touch screens spark debate about move to digital elections

By Alex Hummel
Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers

OSHKOSH — Touch-screen voting machines or not, the Winnebago County Board's indecision is certainly touching a nerve.

On Wednesday, coming off a mid-May defeat of a resolution to buy 49 high-tech digital touch-screen voting machines, the board voted 28-6 to reconsider the measure Tuesday. It stopped short of casting a second vote on a controversial topic.

On Tuesday, the 38-member board will reconsider the defeated resolution to spend a federally reimbursable $288,000 and buy 50 Diebold Elections Systems touch-screen voting machines to comply with the Help America Vote Act.

HAVA contains a provision calling for touch-screen technology, or something like it, to improve access to the U.S. election system for disabled, visually impaired and blind Americans.

http://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060615/APC0101/606150643/1003/APC01

Voting Machine Company Apologizes To Kern County

POSTED: 9:21 pm PDT June 13, 2006
UPDATED: 10:13 am PDT June 14, 2006

BAKERSFIELD -- The company whose voter access cards led to last week's election fiasco apologized to Kern County Tuesday.

Diebolt Vice President Steven Moreland took full responsibility for the snafu.

The company makes the electronic voting machines and voter access cards.

The mishap led to long lines and voters were turned away from the polls.

http://www.turnto23.com/news/9366552/detail.html

Velvet Revolution Declares NO CONFIDENCE in Busby/Bilbray Election Results
Begins Petition Drive for Manual Hand Recount!

VelvetRevolution.us declares 'No Confidence' in the reported results of the Busby/Bilbray Election. Here's why: http://www.velvetrevolution.us/#061006


http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2964

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hursday, June 15, 2006
The political use of a corpse



You may not recognise the gentleman hanging here. This is what happened to Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator, after the political tides turned against him. He and his mistress, along with five other Fascists, were hanged on the grounds of a gas station on April 29, 1945.

Since ancient times, Italians have hanged traitors upside down, usually by one foot. (Now you know the origin of the tarot's "Hanged Man.")

My question is a simple one. Did any Democrat make political use of this gruesome photo in any election that took place after that date? I may be wrong, but I seem to recall reading -- somewhere -- that photos of Mussolini's body did not recieve wide play in the newspapers of the time. At any rate, I feel pretty certain that no image of this sort ever appeared in any candidate's campaign materials.

Today, in the "constant campaign" waged by Republicans, we continually see the image of the corpse of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. (Let us here presume that those images are genuine, although everyone understands that Photoshop can work wonders.) I am not sorry to see Zarqawi go, although I do believe that he was, in essence, a scarecrow -- what Britain's Lieutenant Kitson might have called the pseudo-leader of a pseudo-gang.

http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/06/political-use-of-corpse.html

Voter turnout 22% in North Dakota primary

North Dakota's primary election voter turnout was about 22%.

Secretary of State Al Jaeger says 111,232 voters cast ballots in yesterday's election.

North Dakota doesn't have voter registration. The State Census Data Center at North Dakota State University estimates the number of eligible voters who are living in the state.

The center estimates that North Dakota has 495,411 eligible voters. That translates into a voter turnout rate of 22.5%.

http://www.kxma.com/news/local.asp?ID=6957

With low turnout for primary, what were nonvoters doing?

Thursday, June 15, 2006

CHARLESTON, S.C. - With only about 17 percent of South Carolina's registered voters going to the polls on Tuesday, just what were the other 83 percent doing?

It depends who you ask. Some folks said they stayed away because of the weather. Some said they just forgot. Others said they just couldn't make sense of the primary.

"This potentially could end up being the lowest turnout in the past 10 years," said Chris Whitmire, a spokesman for the South Carolina Election Commission.

"I forgot about the whole thing. I think the weather may have played a part. Coming back from Mount Pleasant, there were several accidents on the road on I-26 and a lot of people probably just said forget about it and went home," said Richard Hassell of Hanahan.

http://www.thetandd.com/articles/2006/06/15/ap-state-sc/d8i8mqeo0.txt

A Vote of No Confidence


"Before his swearing-in, Bilbray said he looked forward to replacing the images of airplanes that used to decorate the walls with photos of surfboards and sailboats." -- USA Today

Unfortunately, the immigrant-bashing Brian Bilbray wasn't talking about decorating his dorm room. California's newest congressman is moving into the Rayburn House Office Building, specifically the office vacated by Randall "Duke" Cunningham, bribe taker extraordinaire, who is now serving eight years in prison.
Bilbray edged past Democrat Francine Busby in a special, allegedly closely watched election on June 6, allowing Republicans to hold the 50th District in traditionally conservative San Diego County.

And the folksy detail about Bilbray's taste in poster art, in lieu of reportorial outrage, seems to signal that, once again, America has moved on from a shoddily conducted election -- making Congress seem about as trustworthy as a New Orleans rebuilt atop the toxic waste stirred up by Hurricane Katrina. Somebody's going to get sick from this sooner or later.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-koehler/a-vote-of-no-confidence_b_23007.html

Katherine Yurica: A Vast Political Misfortune
Thursday, 15 June 2006, 3:57 pm
Opinion: Katherine Yurica
A Vast Political Misfortune

Or Why Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is Correct in His Assessment
of the Late 2004 Election (which was sadly murdered by the G.O.P.,
may it rest in peace). And Why Salon .com’s Article Attacking Kennedy is Wrong.
By Katherine Yurica
June 11, 2006

It has been reported that Lysenko, the Soviet biologist, made the following demonstration during a lecture: he put a flea on his desk and said, "Jump!" Presently the flea jumped. He then removed the flea's hind legs and said, "Jump!" again. This time the flea did not jump. "Observe, gentlemen," said Lysenko: "This proves that when you remove the flea's hind legs, its hearing is impaired.
- Monroe Beardsley

If one is an old Ent, one does not like to be hasty. However, circumstances have a way of forcing themselves upon us and occasionally we are called upon to analyze something minutely, which nowadays goes against the grain, in as much as thinking, itself, is out of style. This latter fact is lamentable, but let us not tarry on it. Instead, let us go forward, analytically speaking.

On June 3, 2006 Farhad Manjoo, a 27 year old writer for Salon .com, penned a denunciation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s article, “Was the 2004 Election Stolen? ” published by Rolling Stone. Mr. Manjoo mentioned that many major studies and analyses of the 2004 election existed, and then lamented that those studies were followed by “legions of activists, academics, bloggers and others who’ve devoted their post-Nov. 2 lives to unearthing every morsel of data that might suggest the vote was rigged.”

You can easily note that Mr. Manjoo and Salon .com are not in a generous mood in their essay. The very best of his ungracious statements is this one: “If you do read Kennedy’s article, be prepared to machete your way through numerous errors of interpretation and his deliberate omission of key bits of data.” Oh dear, Mr. Manjoo’s words are so, so violent—so uncharitable to the innocent sentences as well as to the guilty ones, if there are in fact any guilty ones at all. For starting with Mr. Manjoo’s very first assertion, which I admit was so convincing on the surface that the Yurica Report posted a warning to its readers to drive by with caution when reading and slow down to a crawl when passing Mr. Kennedy’s powerful imagery.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0606/S00211.htm

Thursday June 15, 2006 3:46 PM

By GINA HOLLAND

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that police can use evidence collected
with a warrant even if officers fail to knock before rushing into a home.

Justice Samuel Alito broke a 4-4 tie in siding with Detroit police, who called out their
presence at a man's door then went inside three seconds to five seconds later.

The case had tested previous court rulings that police armed with warrants generally must knock
and announce themselves or they run afoul of the Constitution's Fourth Amendment ban on
unreasonable searches.

Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority, said "whether that preliminary misstep
had occurred or not, the police would have executed the warrant they had obtained, and
would have discovered the gun and drugs inside the house."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5888517,00.html

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Blackwell revising voter registration handling requirements

Associated Press

CLEVELAND - Ohio's chief elections officer, Republican gubernatorial candidate Kenneth Blackwell, has proposed revising his new voter registration rules that critics say have hurt their efforts to sign people up.

Lawyers for the Ohio Democratic Party and voter-registration organizations had argued that the rule defining compensation for people collecting voter-registration forms meant that a volunteer who accepted a soda or a sandwich would be considered a paid registrar subject to training requirements and felony penalties for election fraud.

Blackwell, whose elections directions for the 2004 presidential contest were often met with criticism, proposed Wednesday to delete the compensation definition from the rules. The change would conform with state law governing groups that pay people to register voters, which does not apply to volunteers.

Blackwell, facing Democrat Ted Strickland in the Nov. 7 election, also wants to make clear that new registration forms may be mailed to election boards.

The previous rule made no such mention, and critics complained that omission suggested voter-registration forms had to be dropped off at county elections offices, which they felt would be a burden.

http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/14826017.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

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