Election-Tech-Initiative / Election-Tech-Initiative/electionguard-python

✨ Null hashes don't match between Python and C++

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Description

## Feature Request

**Description**
There is a discrepancy between null hashes in the C and Python code. A hash of null results in H() in one case but H(|), a hash of a delimiter, in the other.

**Proposed Solution**
Per @benaloh - a null hash should just be H()

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