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3 rural SD counties to use electronic poll books
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Secretary of State Jason Gant has trained workers in three rural South Dakota counties on using electronic poll books and vote centers.
• Hyde, Sully and Potter counties will use the new voting system during the June 5 primary election. It'll be the first time vote centers and electronic poll books will be used outside the city of Sioux Falls.
• An electronic poll book uses a laptop to check in voters. The vote center concept lets voters cast their ballots anywhere in the jurisdiction rather than being limited to the precinct in which they live.
• The two systems were used in Sioux Falls city and school elections last year and this year. Gant says the vote center model was ideal for rural counties where many voters don't regularly come into town.
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10 Things to Know for Friday
The Associated Press
• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today (times EDT):
• -- History Being Made 250 Miles Above Earth
• At 11:20 a.m., the privately built SpaceX Dragon reaches the International Space Station with a half-ton of supplies, the first time a commercial cargo ship will link up with the orbiting outpost.
• -- Breakthrough in Etan Patz Investigation
• An afternoon arraignment is scheduled for Pedro Hernandez, 51, a former New York City convenience-store stock clerk suspected of murdering Etan, one of the first missing children ever to appear on a milk carton in 1979.
• -- Garden State Clears NYPD of Wrongdoing
• Muslim leaders in New Jersey say they are angry but uncertain what their next step will be after the state's attorney general found that New York City police did not violate any laws in their surveillance of businesses, mosques and student groups.
• -- Corporate Titans Cashing in Big Time
• The $9.6 million pay package for a typical CEO was up 6 percent from the year before, and AP survey finds. David Simon, CEO of a mall operator, was the highest-paid at $137 million.
• -- Avoiding a Contentious Election Year Confrontation
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