Word: chadli
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MOST CRUCIAL PIECE OF TRIVIA "Hanging chad"--not a sport fish or a porn star but what you get when the little paper punch-out doesn't detach fully from the ballot...
...that discretion of hers to include a manual recount to be included in the total. But in the absence of anything that compelling, it was up to her. (This one appeared not to sit well with Justice Peggy Quince, who seemed to grasp the Democratic argument that a hanging-chad ballot could pass through the machine unread without it really being "machine error" - but was still a vote deserving of tabulation...
...supporters by shouting about it, that Democratic voters mess up more when they get inside the voting booth. That's why in the case of the census the Democrats are in favor of sampling and in the case of Florida they're in favor of counting every last hanging chad. More is better, and whatever methodology gets you more is the better course...
Palm Beach County Circuit Court Judge Jorge Labarga ruled yesterday morning that the county can decide for itself whether "dimpled chad"--a ballot on which the punchcard was not perforated--counts. He set a 9:30 a.m. Friday hearing for demands by some voters to hold a new election in Palm Beach County...
...Christopher wants to let the Florida Supreme Court handle all election-related lawsuits and ask it to rule "whether hand counts now ongoing are appropriate under Florida law, and if so, what is the deadline for their completions." Christopher is also looking for a statewide standardization of all matters "chad." But his main point may have been to say that Harris's way of doing things, in lower courts, "would serve only to delay once again the counting of the votes...