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...Another witness described how he placed his stylus on the chad marked for one of the presidential candidates before changing his mind and boycotting the choice altogether. "And you wouldn't want that mark to be counted for a man you decided not to vote for, would you?" demanded Bush lead attorney Phil Beck, making the prospect sound as horrific as possible. No, the witness agreed, he would...
...Observations, he had plenty of. The rubber strips that part for punched chads grew old and stiff over age, he told Gore questioner Stephen Zack. Some styluses were particularly apt to leave chad behind. Some people voted with the card on top of the machine, and only left dimples. Sometimes the chad basin filled up so high that punching through was futile. And Brace never missed an opportunity to tack a Gore talking point at the end of observations. The scanner misses votes, so all the votes in Maimi-Dade must be counted by hand, "the only way of absolutely...
...ultimately, commonsense aspects of Brace's claims may make a lasting impression on Sauls. The idea that hanging chad happens - and can fool a machine scanner - is still a valid and sensible argument for a Miami-Dade manual recount, whatever the legal questions involved (that'll come later), and there was no evidence Sauls didn't see it. And when Beck had finished, and wiped the blood off his lips, Gore lawyer Zack made up some lost ground, bringing in a genuine Votomatic whose basin that was "filled to the brim with chad." The intuitive virtues of Brace's testimony...
Thousands of noisy Bush and Gore partisans jammed the side walks surrounding the marble-columned courthouse, waving signs that read "Kiss My Chad," "Give Up, You Lost," "We've Been Bushwhacked," "Gore Makes Nixon Look Good." Helmeted police lined the sidewalk, ready to intervene if necessary. But the crowd was in high spirits, ready to party. A man in an Uncle Sam costume paced the sidewalk. A woman reached her hands to the sky, loudly praising God for the countless blessings of democracy. One man paraded with a sign saying, "From Monica to Chads. Enough is Enough." All that...
Other bad things: the legitimacy of U.S. think-tankers monitoring elections overseas will be diminished. "Chad" jokes will proliferate far beyond humor boundaries. And the 2004 election won't be nearly as exciting...