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So much for stuffing the ballot boxes.

Major League Baseball is moving its All-Star balloting process entirely online, and will no longer collect the punch card paper ballots previously used inside stadiums, according to Bloomberg News. That means no more let-me-think pencil pokes, no more bull’s-eye chads.

Online voting accounted for more than 80 percent of ballots cast last season and more than 16 million paper ballots went unused, according to Bob Bowman, the league’s president for business and media.

“We therefore have made the decision to go green, while also saving the cost of managing an offline program,” Bowman wrote in a memo.

Major League Baseball had been the last holdout: Every other major US sports league uses digital balloting for its All-Star Game.

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