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CHICAGO - Marilyn Mahon joined about 40 people in a stuffy basement room of the Daley Center for a recent three-hour lesson on when to issue provisional ballots to voters, how to keep intrusive poll watchers at bay and how to run a polling place.The 76-year-old, an election judge for about eight years, was familiar with most of the instructions. But she was relieved to hear about changes to provisional ballots, which were problematic during their debut in the March primary, when only about 17 percent ended up counting statewide.

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