The Woman accepted the vote before the chamber certified it.
```
PUBLIC MAJORITY:
51.4.
CONSENT VALID.
CIVIC SUBJECT FORMED.
```
The empty chair above Central Shelter gained four legs.
Each leg descended through a different district map without touching the ground.
One crossed Ward Nine's blue stair.
One crossed Bay Twelve's west ladder.
One crossed Mercy's broken ambulance ramp.
One entered Freight Gate Six and stopped at twelve vanished heat marks.
Sam held one-twelfth of the Record at Aldgate.
"Subject challenge."
The chamber system answered him.
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PRIMARY CUSTODIAN STATUS:
REVOKED.
```
"Good. Ask the local sections."
Ward Nine challenged first.
Thirty-one people above the gas seal had never received a working ballot. Their devices showed a saved yes while the district relay remained physically disconnected.
Bay Twelve challenged dead-hand inclusion.
Two hundred nine forms carried biometric caches from people already named dead in the local Record.
