All three could be offered on the same ballot paper.
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There will be 33 other candidates on the long ballot paper.
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A sudoku-style ballot paper features only numbers, each representing a candidate.
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Each of the state's 67 counties can design its own ballot paper.
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Polling officers helped voters put each ballot paper in the right box.
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Eventually 14 rivals were listed on a long ballot paper on February 26th.
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SADIQ KHAN: Jeremy Corbyn is not on the ballot paper on May 5th.
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However, having Navalny on the ballot paper could be an irritant for the Kremlin.
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People voted via a mobile app which was essentially the equivalent of a ballot paper.
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" "A ballot paper would need to contain real choices for both leave and remain voters.
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In front of the partition stood Marko, a 26-year-old student, ballot paper in hand.
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The British government under Theresa May apparently thinks the 2016 EU referendum ballot paper had psychic qualities.
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What you do with the ballot paper is your own business though informal votes are still low.
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Others intended to spoil their ballot paper, didn't intend to vote or refused to name their favorite.
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They will vote at 1900 GMT on a ballot paper for as many proposals as they wish.
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I have marked my ballot paper, with a certain trepidation, in favor of leaving the EU, or Brexit.
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The colour of the ballot paper is chosen the day before and will be different for each round.
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Parties are listed first on the ballot paper, alphabetically, followed by individual candidates who are standing as independents.
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The true winner of the 2018 election may well be a "party" that is not on the ballot paper.
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For the first time in 38 years the name of Robert Mugabe is not be on the ballot paper.
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The ballot paper listing the 23 presidential candidates has Mr Mnangagwa conveniently placed at the top of the page.
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But ultimately it will be up to Parliament to decide what the question on the ballot paper should be.
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"The single market was not on the ballot paper," Jonathan Lis, the deputy director of British Influence, told Reuters.
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The color of the ballot paper is chosen the day before the vote and will be different for each round.
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The historic vote is the first in nearly four decades without former strongman leader Robert Mugabe on the ballot paper.
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I needed no ID, and no polling card -- simply gave my name and address and was handed a ballot paper.
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He said the campaign should focus on bigger concerns such as global warming and plans to leave his ballot paper blank.
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But then the referendum was never a simple cost-benefit analysis of EU membership, as the ballot paper may have suggested.
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LUXEMBOURG VOTED for a new parliament on October 14th—but 48% of those who live there were not allowed a ballot-paper.
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The electoral commission chairwoman, Priscilla Chigumba, has rebuffed the opposition&aposs demands, which include touching the ballot paper or examining it closely.
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AT SOME POINT in June or July roughly 1723,000 people in Britain can expect to receive a ballot paper in the post.
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It is also very unclear what the options on the ballot paper would be—something even the referendum campaigners cannot agree on.
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The fear, apparently, was that MPs might not decide on the kind of Brexit the Daily Mail wants (see Psychic Ballot Paper).
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WITHOUT A BALLOT paper being marked, residents from Doddington and Wimblington, two villages in north Cambridgeshire, have already elected a pair of councillors.
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The plan is for candidates to share a descriptor, which would appear next to the name of their party on the ballot paper.
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He accused the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) of bias, citing opaque ballot paper printing and a voters roll that includes dead people and children.
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It seems inconceivable that Parliament would call a referendum without putting Remain on the ballot paper: that is the outcome most referendum-backers want.
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As in many plebiscites, people may well vote with their hearts rather than their heads, answering questions that go far beyond the ballot paper.
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The map also features wheel-chair accessible polling locations, information on seats around the country and the candidates set to appear on your ballot paper.
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Many, declaring themselves "Bernie or Bust" voters, pledged to write their hero's name on to the ballot paper if he is not the Democratic nominee.
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Turn-out in French presidential elections is consistently high, at about 80% of the 46m on the electoral register; some 75% cast an unspoilt ballot paper.
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And there was nothing on the ballot paper to say that Britain should leave either the single market or the customs union; just the EU itself.
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Although the Kremlin can keep him off the ballot paper, it cannot keep him away from street politics, unless it decides to arrest him yet again.
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No reference to immigration appeared on the ballot paper, but politicians believe that the Brexit vote represented a desire to "take back control" of the country's borders.
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But if we are to have a binary referendum, one of the three options—Remain, Compromise or No Deal—must be left off the ballot paper. Which?
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SPEND any time on the campaign trail, and before too long a cynical voter will complain that there is no difference between candidates on the ballot paper.
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The 50-year-old was the only candidate on the ballot paper following the withdrawal prior to the meeting of Bjorn Eriksson, making Vestberg's election a formality.
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Germany is a mixed-member proportional system, meaning that voters cast two votes on their ballot paper – one for a constituency MP and one for a party.
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A frail Mugabe, accompanied by his wife, Grace, shuffled into the polling booth and spent several minutes filling in his ballot paper with the help of an assistant.
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Tests for Theresa May, Britain's Prime Minister Britain voted 52% to 0003% to leave the EU. But the only question on the ballot paper was Remain or Leave.
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The voting machine then prints a ballot paper with those choices, sparing the need to pre-print large ballots with the names and photos of dozens of candidates.
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This might be done by having two sets of questions on one ballot paper, or perhaps by having votes on two consecutive weeks (like a French presidential election).
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Yet, even in the event of a second vote, the question remains whether there will even be an option to stay in the EU on the ballot paper.
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On March 26th another election will be held, to choose Hong Kong's next leader—the "chief executive"—but this time just 1,194 people will be given a ballot paper.
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Such certainty points to Brexiters' belief in the… Psychic ballot paper The referendum only asked voters whether they wanted to leave the EU, not how it should be done.
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Broward County, which leans Democratic, produced a ballot paper so confusing that lots of voters appear not to have noticed that there was a Senate election taking place in Florida.
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"Simply send in a photo of your ballot paper from polling day showing you voted against the Conservative incumbent and this complimentary gift will be mailed to you," he wrote.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Former president Robert Mugabe, 94, cast his vote in a Harare township on Monday in Zimbabwe's first election that does not include his name on the ballot paper.
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If Morrissey actually wants to become Mayor he'll need to collect 330 signatures – at least ten from each London borough—before his name will be eligible for the ballot paper.
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The word "leave" was on the ballot paper, but since it provided no explanation of what this meant, we have to assume that it means "leave" in the context of membership.
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May's interpretation of that result has been to claim citizens voted to end free movement of EU people and workers, despite there being no such specific detail on the ballot paper.
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But if Mr Corbyn—who spent most of his career as a fringe left-wing figure—makes it onto the ballot paper, his idealistic supporters in the party's membership could reinstate him.
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"You only get to vote for who's on the ballot paper, and your choices are between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and I find that an easy choice to make," said Wilbur Ross.
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Yet the question on the ballot paper was only about whether to leave the EU. A clear trade-off exists between the goals of maximising market access and adopting tougher controls on migration.
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Other practical considerations against a second referendum are that it needs new legislation to approve holding a second vote, as well as a decision about what question to put on the ballot paper.
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In 2015 the government ran a referendum to grant a national ballot paper to residents if they had lived in the country for ten years and had voted in local and European elections.
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Corbyn retains strong support among the party's rank-and-file members, meaning that if he does make the ballot paper he could hold on to power and prolong the stand-off with MPs.
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With a record 26-inch long ballot paper to accommodate a large number of candidates and possible second counting of preferential votes, the counting is expected to take more time than previous elections.
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Speaking together in Northern Ireland, the two former British prime ministers, who both played important roles in the province's peace process in the 1990s, warned that unity was effectively on the ballot paper.
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An elections official told the teacher that the box contained "ballot paper," but didn't provide the representative with any information about how they could possibly know what's in the box without seeing it.
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"He's the only politician who speaks of the downtrodden," said Jennifer, an actor, who swore she would write Bernie onto the ballot paper in November even if his rival, Hillary Clinton, wins the Democratic nomination.
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Voters who want the United Kingdom to stay together, or who dislike both socialism and Brexit—potentially, rather a lot of them—will thus be left holding their nose as they mark their ballot paper.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Some members of Britain's Conservative Party have been issued with more than one ballot paper to vote for the party's next leader, who will also become prime minister, the BBC reported on Saturday.
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Party Chairman Brandon Lewis said on Twitter that — as was the case in a general election — people would only be able to vote once even if they had been sent more than one ballot paper.
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The legal challenge has been launched by Labour donor Michael Foster, whose lawyers will argue that the National Executive Committee (NEC) made the wrong decision in giving Corbyn an automatic spot on the ballot paper.
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The challenge of taking Brexit from the simplicity of the choice on the ballot paper to the complexity of resetting the country's relationship with 27 of its nearest neighbours was always going to be huge.
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In that scenario, the choice on the ballot paper would be between Labour's deal and remaining in the EU, the unions said, and how Labour campaigned in a second referendum would depend on the deal negotiated.
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Pro-Remain MPs hope to amend any motion put by the government to insist that Johnson's deal is put to a confirmatory vote, with the option to remain in the EU also on the ballot paper.
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In its approach to Brexit, the Conservative government has been cavalier, ruling out membership of the single market or customs union without conducting an economic study (apparently because of their belief in the psychic ballot paper argument).
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The question on the ballot paper may be about the constitution, but looming large is the figure of President Tayyip Erdogan, who could win sweeping powers and stay in office until 2029 if the changes are approved.
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"One has to take the ballot paper, the Macron one, and consider it as the ballot that will prevent (the country) from the far right," Hollande said on the sidelines of a European Union summit devoted to Brexit.
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So the public "decided" to leave the single market and the customs union, even though those options weren't on the ballot paper and some Leave campaigners said there was "no question" of the single market being at risk.
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Scotland was not on the ballot paper in the referendum on the EU. In Scotland 62% of people voted for the UK to remain in the EU, which is not the same as voting for Scotland to remain.
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And whereas Labour candidates need the backing of only 10% of MPs to get on to the ballot paper sent to members, Tory candidates are whittled down by MPs to a shortlist of two before members have their say.
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Elections under Mugabe were often marred by intimidation, rigging and violence but the consensus is the build-up to this vote has been better than before, although Chamisa complained about a flawed voters' roll and opaque ballot paper printing.
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"It would be alien to the concept of natural justice that Jeremy Corbyn is not automatically on the ballot paper," said Len McCluskey, a Corbyn supporter and head of Unite, the country's biggest union and Labour's largest financial backer.
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Later on Tuesday the party's national executive committee will make a crucial ruling over whether Corbyn's name is automatically on the ballot paper for the leadership election, or whether he, like his challenger, needs to find 51 lawmakers to back him.
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Although not on the ballot paper, the "No" camp has seized on government plans to allow terminations with no restriction up to 12 weeks into a pregnancy if the referendum is carried, calling it a step too far for most voters.
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It was in November of 2016 when voters in Massachusetts said yes to Question 4 on their ballot paper, agreeing to legalize cannabis, and on November 20, this year two retail stores opened their doors to consumers aged 21 and over.
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Proposed by Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable and his MPs, it calls on the government to rule out a 'no deal' exit and prepare for a second referendum in which the option to remain in the EU would be on the ballot paper.
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Although not on the ballot paper, the "No" camp sought to seize on government plans to allow abortions with no restriction up to 12 weeks into a pregnancy if the referendum is carried, calling it a step too far for most voters.
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It is not clear whether the choice would be between versions of Brexit or whether the ballot paper would include an option to stay in the EU. Some have suggested a three-option vote, while others have considered a two-stage referendum.
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In her first public meeting after a summer break in the tiny village of Brachay in northeastern France, Le Pen portrayed herself as the sole credible defender of law and order and national unity, saying the best way to combat terrorism was the ballot paper.
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But Corbyn's chances of holding on to control won a boost when Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) ruled that he should automatically appear on the ballot paper rather than have to find 51 lawmakers to nominate him, a task that he would struggle to achieve.
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Labour proposes renegotiating Prime Minister Boris Johnson's EU exit deal and putting it to a referendum with the choice to remain on the ballot paper within 6 months if they win the election, but Corbyn has declined to say which way he would vote.
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Labour proposes renegotiating Prime Minister Boris Johnson's EU exit deal and putting it to a referendum with the choice to remain on the ballot paper within 6 months if they win the election, but Corbyn has declined to say which way he would vote.
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"The negotiations have been a shambles, primarily because the government opted to implement a strategy which was not on the ballot paper and gave insufficient thought about how to implement it prior to triggering Article 50 (to launch the Brexit process)," said Peter Dixon at Commerzbank.
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The system consists of about 22016,240 "ballot-marking devices" set up in vote centers across the county: After voters insert blank ballot paper into a machine and use its touchscreen to make their selections, the device prints out a machine-generated paper ballot marked with their choices.
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AMENDMENT C - Signed by 11 lawmakers Proposed by Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable and his lawmakers, it calls on the government to rule out a no-deal exit and prepare for a second referendum in which the option to remain in the EU would be on the ballot paper.
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AMENDMENT C - Signed by 11 lawmakers Proposed by Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable and his lawmakers, it calls on the government to rule out a no-deal exit and prepare for a second referendum in which the option to remain in the EU would be on the ballot paper.
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AMENDMENT C - Signed by 226 MPs Proposed by Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable and his MPs, it calls on the government to rule out a no-deal exit and prepare for a second referendum in which the option to remain in the EU would be on the ballot paper.
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She has come out against a referendum herself, but she might find that the only way she can cling to office would be to gamble on one in which her deal was the first option on the ballot paper, exit without a deal the second, while the third would be remain.
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The man who supported a strategy summarised by a close associate as "a ballot paper in one hand and an Armalite in the other" later delivered an IRA ceasefire and the decommissioning of its weaponry, in exchange for assurances that Sinn Fein would be allowed entry into the political mainstream.
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This term, which first arose after another surprise Conservative triumph, in 1992, refers to voters who feel slightly embarrassed at voting for such an untrendy party, so do not admit to pollsters (or perhaps even themselves, until confronted by the ballot paper) that they trust it more than the alternatives.
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And as I think I said 11 years ago to the people of London when I was elected in what's thought of as a Labour city, your hand may have quivered over the ballot paper as before you put your cross in the Conservative box and you may return to Labour next time around.
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There is a growing cross-party consensus calling for a 'people's vote' where voters would be given three options on a ballot paper: to either accept the deal, accept no deal and exit on March 29 or remain in the EU. Yet, it is not clear if there is a majority in parliament to vote on a new mandate for a second referendum.
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" His call for pictures on Sunday had immediately raised concerns by many who cited Section 66 of the Representation of the People's Act, which states that no person shall "directly or indirectly induce a voter to display his ballot paper after he has marked it so as to make known to any person the name of the candidate for whom he has or has not voted.
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