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Proof: Voting begins for high-stakes bypolls in three States, one U.T. | LIVE

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017837c54a4b7a330f1dad1dcf626f93fba5e5a7eaef4ca3176c2ee133c2ea01

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970117, mined 2026-10-06 01:59 UTC.

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• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: error:not-found.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-017837c54a4b.json prints 017837c54a4b7a330f1dad1dcf626f93fba5e5a7eaef4ca3176c2ee133c2ea01. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
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3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

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