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    The "smoothing" process greatly affects the ballots going 
    thru the units smoothly.  The folks in Santa Barbara have accepted this 
    process and seem ok with it.  The "low staffing" sites, such as 
    Humboldt, bristle at the thought of having to manually smooth out the fold 
    on each ballot.  But they may not have a choice.      This 
used to be standard operating procedure with the inferred 
readers.  Some of the old guard might even remember Stewart 
Seidel's Accu-Iron.  Seems to me this was one 
of issues the Lucid readers were supposed to 
fix...   Ken   |