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Museum Hunt

When the election is finally settled, what will happen to the butterfly ballots, polling stations and chads at the center of attention? Some of them may end up at the Smithsonian Institution. Host Lisa Simeone talks with Larry Bird, curator of the Political History Collection at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, who's heading to Florida on a collection mission.

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