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## Read the current vote number from the mySQL database.
my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:$database","$username","$passwor
+d") || error_fatal ("[ vote.cgi: Admin: Unable to open mySQL database
+ - $! ]");
...
$sth_1->execute();
my @vote_no = $sth_1->fetchrow_array();
my $current_vote = $vote_no[0];