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Ticket 票 West Ballot Boxes Afraid Fraud Fighting

meaning ticket
number 1194
hanzi
story In the Old West there were no ticket (ballot) boxes. Afraid of fraud and fighting among the gunslingers, the tickets were posted into a slot in the top of the local church altar instead. They may have been rough, but the cowboys wouldn't fight in the church.
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