Election-Tech-Initiative / Election-Tech-Initiative/electionguard
🗂 Write In is nullable field in Manifest
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Description
### Is there an existing issue for this?
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### Suggestion
The Manifest particularly Manifest.Candidate.is_write_in is encoded as null or true or false since it is an Optional[boolean] at least in Python.
### Possible Implementation
Recommend approach would be to replace this field with only `true` or `false` and make it mandatory.
### Anything else?
Original Issues in Python from @JohnLCaron
https://github.com/microsoft/electionguard-python/issues/532
https://github.com/microsoft/electionguard-python/issues/522
https://github.com/microsoft/electionguard-python/issues/523
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