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>>(b)Ballot-box stuffing casesThese cases involve the insertion into ballot boxes of invalid, fraudulent, or otherwise illegal ballots. All ballot-box stuffingschemes necessarily involve poll officials, since access to votingdocuments is essential to this type of fraud and is controlled by statelaw. Ballot-box stuffing investigations seek to identify fraudulentvoting transactions and to link specific poll officials to them. Thegeneral investigative methodology is to: •Subpoena election documents. Obtain and examine the poll lists or other documentation that voters sign when entering the polls; the registrationcards for voters residing in the target precinct, any paperor punch card ballots, and any tally sheets prepared by thepoll officials reporting the election results