tiontimeout"></a>Managing Election Timeouts</h3>
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                        When an environment calls for an election, it will wait
                        some amount of time for the other replicas in the
                        replication group to respond. The amount of time
                        that the environment will wait before declaring the
                        election completed is the <span class="emphasis"><em>election timeout</em