Photo originally published July 16 in Capitol Report and Politics in Minnesota. Machine operator Ningzhung B. Lee prepares to feed mail into an optical character-recognition scanning machine at the Minnesota Department of Administration's Mail Services office. The operation is housed inside the Department of Transportation building in St. Paul, Minn. Photo: Kevin Featherly.
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