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State Officials Consider Simplified Voting Systems

Voting chaos was avoided during the presidential election, but enough problems emerged to start election officials thinking about possible improvements. Some critics say the nation's decentralized election system only makes matters worse. NPR's Pam Fessler reports.

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Pam Fessler is a correspondent on NPR's National Desk, where she covers poverty, philanthropy, and voting issues.
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