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San Diego ran out of absentee ballots and was forced to mail out photocopies of the actual ballot.

If that wasn’t bad enough, when the photocopied ballots are filled out and returned, the Registrar of Voters staff will copy the votes by hand onto the actual ballot, which can then be run through an optical scanner.

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