Word: punchcards
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Yeats said the center cannot hold. A computer expert tells me the punchcards cannot hold. The cards are "prepunched" at the factory that makes them - that is, scored in dozens of places with tiny blades to make it possible for the voter to push them through with relative ease. Even the most stringent quality control at the punchcard factory, the expert says, cannot prepare the much-bladed punchcards to survive all the manipulation they are getting...
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...
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