They appoint precinct election judges and other election-day officials.

他们委任选举区的评判员及在大选日工作的官员。

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These are actual votes that are available after the polls have closed and the precinct officials have counted the votes in that precinct.

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Election officials post the results so anyone at the precinct can know them.

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Analysts even distinguish between retail cheating, when local officials sneak in an extra vote or two at the precinct level, and the wholesale kind, when the numbers are doctored during the amalgamation of the results in the municipalities or provinces.

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