Officials must often count up the votes one by one, going through every ballot and recording the vote.
官员们必须经常一个一个地清点选票，检查每一张选票并记录选票。
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The legislature currently has 299 seats, of which 243 are elected by regional vote and the remaining is distributed by the proportional representation ballot.
立法机构当前有299个席位，其中的243由地方投票选出，其余的席位是按照比例进行投票选出的。
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In a sense, you could deduce whether a vote is a write-in by looking at a corresponding ballot-election.xml file that contains PCDATA content, but using the attribute adds some useful redundancy.