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+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+ <head>
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
+ <title>Selectricity</title>
+ <%= stylesheet_link_tag "common", :media => "all" %>
+ <%= stylesheet_link_tag "front", :media => "all" %>
+ </head>
+
+ <body>
+ <div id="page-wrapper">
+
+ <div id="header">
+ <a href="index.html"><h1>selectricity: voting machinery for the masses</h1></a>
+ </div>
+
+ <div id="body">
+ <%= @content_for_layout %>
+ </div>
+
+ <%= render_partial 'layouts/footer' %>
+</div>
+</body>
+
+</html>