Even so, the labour ministry has been known to dispatch its statistics in handwritten form, presumably carbon-copied for its files first.

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Then you wait in a third line to hand somebody the handwritten ID form and have your paper ballot optically scanned by a scanning machine.

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It took four arduous months for Spriggs to collect his data in the form of 600 loose papers, many handwritten, from doctors and hospitals in Chicago, Fort Collins, Co.

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