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"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "1989, Sharon K. Amatetti, Prevention Plus II, page 483",
"text": "I Provide equipment for multi-plugging into the amplifications system (a “multi-box”) and check to be sure power and fuses are adequate.",
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},
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},
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"ref": "1995, Uganda. Commission of Inquiry into Violations of Human Rights, Report of the Commission of Inquiry Into Violations of Human Rights",
"text": "Mr. Chairman, the Commission took a soft and a weak stand, they kept saying 'we cannot amend the law' because they were talking about one ballot box and the law talks about multi-boxes, they were talking about counting the votes on the spot, and law talks about collecting boxes from the polling stations and putting them in a central place overnight.",
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"ref": "2004, Richard Franklin Bensel, The American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, page 40",
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