These loyalty cards are designed to replace the traditional paper punch cards that provide, say, a free coffee after buying ten coffees.

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Small businesses are looking at an increasing number of digital loyalty programs, which replace the traditional paper punch card and help merchants reward their repeat customers.

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In order to write using the slate and stylus a thick piece of paper is placed face down in the slate, the stylus is used to punch out dots in the paper.

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Scrappers can also buy embellishments to suit any occasion, from a miniature Marine uniform to a hole-punch that makes tiny paper butterflies.

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At least five different voting technologies will be used November 2: electronic machines, lever machines, paper ballots, optical scanners, and punch cards.

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The bill requires counties to abandon voting systems that use punch cards, mechanical levers or paper ballots.

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On the other hand, as the Treasury paper lays out, non-doms, who include shipping tycoons and City high-fliers, pack an economic punch much weightier than their number, currently around 115, 000.

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