Word: rubberizing
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...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...
...Cross-examination is a savage business, and Beck came out with teeth bared. Sneering, sardonic, and sometimes downright vicious, Bush's new star went after Brace on the rubber blends used in South Florida ("I don't know"), the name of the machine that tests rubber softness ("I don't know") how many chads make a pile ("I don't know"), and every other technical fine point with which he could stump Brace for Sauls' amusement. "Your opinion as a political science major is that rubber gets harder?" Beck scoffed, the scarcasm dripping. Brace had come in looking like...
...Finally, toward dinnertime, the Republicans called Richard Grossman, a rubber and plastics "expert" whose status as such was immediately challenged by perhaps over-combative Democratic lawyer Stephen Zack, who insisted on conducting a voir dire (to test a witness's expertise). Zack was unceremoniously cut short by a red-faced Judge Sauls, who furiously pointed out the attorney was not asking relevant questions and told him to sit down in no uncertain terms...
...direct went forward and Grossman told the court more than they'd ever wanted to know about the composition, strength and chemical qualities of the rubber t-strip that's placed under the ballot in a Votomatic machine, testifying firmly there was no way the normal use of a stylus (the tool used to punch chads) could affect the composition of the underlying rubber. This was an attempt to discredit Brace, who'd claimed that overuse can cause the rubber to harden and make it more difficult for voters to punch through chads correctly...
...Boies leaned over to Zack and gently pushed his co-counsel back into his chair. On cross, Zack did get Grossman to admit he had no idea what sort of storage facility the voting machines had been placed in prior to their most recent usage. "Doesn't heat harden rubber, Mr. Grossman? Isn't it possible this urethane wasn't kept in the air-conditioning and it overheated, making it more difficult to use in a voting machine?" Zack demanded...