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Election Machine Stolen

AP

No one stole the Topeka election last night. But someone did make off with a machine that tabulates votes.

That happened after polls closed at 7:00 p.m. Three election workers, closing up a polling place at a school, left the machine in the trunk of a car. And Shawnee County Election Commissioner Elizabeth Ensley says they found it missing a little later.

The apparent crime did not affect the vote count. Ensley says precinct workers had the ballots from their precinct sealed in a box and a printed tally of the votes.

In Shawnee County, voters mark a ballot with a pen, filling in an oval next to the name of the candidate they prefer or their position on a question. They then feed the ballots into a tabulator.

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