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This is what voting looks like around the world

There's apparently a pretty big voting-year market for those big plastic tubs from Home Depot.

In 2000, hanging chads threw the technology of American voting booths into question; more recent chatter about the possibilities of rigged elections led Kara Swisher to muse about the possibility of smartphone voting on a recent Recode Decode. But when you look around the world, we're mostly using the same methods: paper ballots, collected in boxes, counted by humans.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.