As you saw, maybe individuals watching on television, but you saw the election of the speaker, and then the swearing in of the members, and then you had the election of the officers: clerk, chief administrative officer, and sergeant at arms and chaplain.

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However, municipal clerks send their election night results by dial-up modem to the county clerk, where they are tabulated and stored.

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Ms. ELAINE LUDWIG (Chief Clerk, Lebanon County) A big gripe of election officials is that we are down in the trenches and that we should have a little input into what kind of systems we think are going to work for us.

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