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Here's a quick quiz. Which of the following most accurately represents the will of a voter: A hanging chad, a dimpled chad, a partially detached chad or a two-cornered chad...
...Deep in the Chad of Texas...
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...