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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? If you know the ...
Through this double standard, Gore’s pregnant chad threaten to give birth to an equally illegitimate presidency. First consider the Gore side’s attitude about dimpled or pregnant chad ...
There are a half dozen different varieties of chad, including pregnant chads, dimpled chads, tri chads, swinging door chads and, of course, hanging door chads. A hanging door chad, for example ...
So when is a dimpled chad a vote in Texas? Bush aides say such dimpled chads should only be counted on ballots where the voter had a pattern--perhaps lacking the strength--of not punching through ...
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“Dimpled chad will be puzzling moral philosophers for centuries,” assertsSlate’s editor, reflecting the widespread view that they raise a difficult question. But on the question of how or ...
Texas law specifically allows for counting dimpled ballots if "an indentation on the chad ... is present and indicates a clearly ascertainable intent of the voter to vote." The Houston hand count ...
When I heard that Al Gore and George W. Bush were fighting tooth and nail over dimpled chad, whoever he is, I thought this election thing had taken a turn for the right kind of weird. Dimpled chad ...