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Mistakes are inevitable in a national election process that gives 50 states and 4,000 counties free rein but no federal money to operate their voting systems. When the mistakes grow so pervasive that thousands of votes and a presidential election are left in doubt, the country has to rethink the way it casts ballots.

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