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0It's also logistically overwhelming. SOE recently did work with Dallas County, Texas, where more than 7,000 poll workers were organized at hundreds of polling locations, each with up to a dozen voting machines. "Each of those machines has to be transported from warehouses to each individual polling place on time," Bennett said. "The cartridges that come out of the machines have to be tracked back to each 01u01b00tabulator02b02u00 on election night. And all this is controlled by state statutory requirements, and all of it has to be managed."02br
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00What does 'tabulator' mean in this context? Does it refer to a person or a machine?0-