Jean Valjean himself opened the package; it was a bundle of bank-notes.

冉阿让自己把包打开，里面是一叠现钞。

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But, if every government department was handed a bundle of bank-notes every year, those bundles would not be 25% smaller.

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If a second ballot must be taken immediately, the first bundle of ballots and any private notes are burned with the second.

CNN: March 13, 2013 -- Updated 0018 GMT (0818 HKT)