Word: chadli
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...votes in some races but not all. Sometimes undervotes are intentional: The voter simply couldn't decide on a candidate, so that part of the ballot was left blank. But sometimes the machine reading a ballot misses a vote that was cast. That can happen when, for example, a chad isn't fully dislodged from a punch card. Florida has more than 61,000 undervoted ballots from this year's presidential race, a large but not shocking number for a state that uses old Votomatics...
...closest presidential election in American history, every chad counts. The closeness of this election--and the significant chance that simple errors may have changed the outcome--require an examination of how America could have avoided the personal and mechanical failures that lead to the current fiasco...
Unfortunately, none of the third-party candidates had enough seed money to ensure that the populace at large viewed their ads. The result? Money wasted on ineffective advertising by major-party candidates: ten million dollars. Having the Presidency hinge upon a chad: priceless...
...acknowledged, perception of fairness is relative. For example, many Americans cast votes for candidates of both parties. Was it fair to give a dimpled Gore chad to Gore merely because the voter had selected other Democratic candidates...
Volpe started his domination early, with an 11-7 victory over Chad Grant of Boston University, followed by a tremendous 17-3 win over Portland State's Jeremy Wilson in the second round...