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Mystery

A total without a box

Amal had practiced announcing that the totals were provisional. At 21:06, when the Bellwether ward board showed Mina Ward leading Claire Holt by twenty votes, nobody in the hall seemed to hear the word. The first cheers came from a corner beneath a leaking skylight. Amal watched the screen, then the manifest on her desk. There should have been a third batch.

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Coercion, threatened confinement, financial misconduct and exploitation.

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