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• Furtive Blogging "Bush and the hanging chads" .

• The Hanging Chad, RIP (Chicago Tribune).
• Ballots will be immediately screened for dimples and hanging chads and the other peculiarities that have become part of the lore of the 2000 election.

• Press Release 11/17/00 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hanging Chad Ale Now on Tap.
• On November 17, 2000 the Cedar Brewing Company, Cedar Rapids Iowa, introduced its new beer, Hanging Chad Ale – a non-partisan brew. ...
• Why Hanging Chad Ale? Brewmaster Mike Snyder said “Naming a beer is the toughest part of the brewing process so I left this one up to the owner, Rob Copenhaver”. In the words of Copenhaver, “Pregnant Chad Ale did not sound politically correct so I went with Hanging Chad Ale”. ...

• THE FIRST HANGING CHAD.
•  And thus passed the very first hanging Chad.

• What is "chad"? Why is is sometimes "hanging chad" or "dimpled/pregnant chad"? .
• What causes "hanging chad" or "dimpled chad"? .
• What is "chad"? Why is is sometimes "hanging chad" or "dimpled/pregnant chad"? Chad is the small piece that is separated from a sheet of cardboard or paper when a hole is punched in the sheet. Usually, chad is partially perforated, so that a puncture will create a hole in a very specific location and the surrounding paper is not torn. ...
• If, the chad is only partly separated when the sheet is punctured, it is called "hanging chad. " For example, the puncture severs the perforations on three sides of a square chad, but leaves the fourth side attached to the sheet. ...
• A "dimpled chad" or "pregnant chad" shows signs of having been punched, but it is not even partially separated from the sheet. ...
• If a chad is incompletely separated from the ballot, it may be pushed back into the hole when the ballot goes through the counting machine, and so no vote is detected even though the ballot was punched. If the chad is only dimpled, there is no hole for the machine to detect, even though the human eye can clearly see the result of punching the ballot. ...
• What causes "hanging chad" or "dimpled chad"? If a chad is not punched hard enough, it is only partly separated from the sheet, or the perforations are not separated at all. Not punching hard enough, however, is only one of several reasons why a chad is dimpled or left hanging instead of being completely separated. Problems with the voting machine can also result in hanging or dimpled chad instead of a clean hole. ...
• As holes are punched in ballots, the chad falls into a catch tray underneath the voting surface. Because different numbers of votes are always cast for different candidates, the chad does not fill the reservoir evenly; they may pile up higher under the holes for candidates who get a lot of votes than under holes for other candidates. If the reservoir is not emptied frequently enough, the piles of chad may stop the punch from penetrating the ballot enough to create a clean hole. ...
• at least two corners of the chad are detached; .

• but no 'hanging chad' plate yet.
• but no 'hanging chad' plate yet. ...

• The Power Of Chad.
• The Power of the Chad.
• Most of the world ultimately turned its attention to the state of Florida where the election process literally teetered on the brink of pandemonium due to "the incredible chad. ...
• " If I were doing the selecting, I might have chosen the chad! Just imagine Time's cover with a "dimpled chad" just waiting for the light to burst through it! Perhaps your own cover would have the full hanging chad, clinging to a lonesome corner. ...
• How something so small as a piece of chad could cause a nation to teeter on the brink of uncertainty for so long is worth a second look. ...
• The big question lying before us as we turn a calendar year is how prevalent is "the argument of the chad" in your life? How clearly do people hear what you say and see what you stand for? Is your character as indistinct as a pregnant, dimpled or hanging chad? Do people try to bring your life into better light to try to figure out what you really stand for? How many recounts are you going to demand in school, church and on the job this year? You fill in the answers. ...
• We are not responsible for old voting machinery that may be stuck or the now famous butterfly ballots of Palm Beach or the mix-ups of Dade County, but we are responsible for the "hanging chads" of our personal choices. ...
• There's a little dangling chad on a ballot now destined for the Smithsonian Institute as an enduring (not endearing) memento of American history. Perhaps, if we take a closer look in that now famous format of holding it up to the light, we too, can divine the greater intent of that hanging chad that echoes, "This is not the way, and do not walk in it again. ...

• HANGING CHAD: It’s not like Packer lineman CHAD CLIFTON is hanging on for dear .
• But he’s hurting, and hanging onto hope he’ll be out of his wheelchair, walking, in a .
• CHAD sustained separated ligaments, swelling and internal bleeding, when he .
• HANGING CHAD II: SAPP, the media, the league, and all the roughneck bullies in the .
• HANGING CHAD III: SAPP says he isn’t a "dirty player. ...
• negative PR he is getting, plus the flack for not contacting CHAD and wishing him well. ...

• A hole was a clear indication of the voter's intent because the chad was completely removed from the ballot paper - and a pregnancy was where one was bulging but that hadn't been completely removed' .
• 'Of course' Yafa assured me 'because there were found to be hanging chads, swinging-door chads and tri-chads - that's chads held on by one, two or three corners respectively - and it couldn't be determined whether the machines had actually been counting them. ...
• 'So what's with the dimpled chad? That's the same as a pregnant one, right?' .
• A dimpled chad is one of the categories of a pregnant chad - the latter could also be simply pierced but not bulging. ...
• It seemed to me that someone, somewhere, was making an absolute fortune in defining all these different possibilities - even though they hadn't yet thought of the 'diagonal chad' where one is held on by the two opposite corners. ...

• There I was, minding my own business hanging out on ScrappleFace and speaking out for Truth, Justice, and the American Way, when suddenly: .
• Hanging chad If you think any of your freedoms were "gifts" then you, unlike the vast majority of us on this site, must have never done anything to earn them!! You, Chad, are exposed!! !!!!Shockanaw!!!! Posted by: Greyhawk on March 22, 2003 09:49 AM .
• Posted by: Hanging Chad on March 22, 2003 07:44 PM.
• Hanging Chad Here's a joke you can tell your friends at the next KKK/Aryan Brotherhood rally:.
• Posted by: Hanging Chad on March 23, 2003 07:58 PM.
• Wow, thanks Chad, from you that's high praise. ...

• 2, which is at best an extremely misleading statement about the Illinois Supreme Court decision about which ballots should be considered legitimate votes -- which "chad" is kosher -- that was included in Tuesday night's Florida Supreme Court ruling. ...
• It involve sic hanging chads, the standard that these three counties began using and the standard that they are now seeking to change. ...
• The Illinois matter is neither the dimpled chad-bashing precedent that the Bushies would have you believe, but nor is it the acceptance of all things dimpled as the Gore camp would have it. ...
• The issue of which chad to accept is of paramount importance for both campaigns since the margin of Bush's lead is so slim -- 930 votes as of Wednesday morning -- a more liberal interpretation of chad could mean the difference in the election. Thus, both camps have been arguing for and against broad chad rulings in the court of public opinion. ...
• It involved hanging chads, the standard that these three counties or four counties began using, and the standard that they are not seeking to change. ...
• That September, the state Supreme Court ordered a lower court to include in the tally eight ballots out of 30 that weren't counted on election night because the chad hadn't been dislodged from the ballots. ...
• In the end, eight disputed ballots were deemed OK -- three "hanging chad" ballots, and five others in which all four corners of chad were still attached to the ballot, but a pinhole had punctured the chad. ...
• The court ruling, cited Tuesday night by the justices' Florida counterparts, stated, "The voters here did everything which the Election Code requires when they punched the appropriate chad with the stylus. These voters should not be disfranchised where their intent may be ascertained with reasonable certainty, simply because the chad they punched did not completely dislodge from the ballot. ...

• hanging Chad's business suit.

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• Chad.
• Did you really want information about the nation of Chad? .
• Figure 1:  Punched-card chad created by a keypunch. ...
• Chad, n. ...
• Chad began as a collective noun, like chaff and wheat. An individual punching from paper or cardstock is a piece of chad, as with a grain of wheat or a flake of chaff. Only in the context of Votomatic voting devices has CHAD come to be used as a singular noun, with the plural form CHADS. Historical usage within IBM appears to have favored CHIPS as the term for punchings for punched cards, but it seems that paper-tape machines, particularly teletypes, have had chad boxes (to catch the chad under the paper tape punch mechanism) for years, although in the 1920's, the term used in that domain was punchings. By the 1960's, the term chad was widely used to describe the chips from keypunches, and every keypunch had a chad box. ...
• The theory that chad is a back formation from the surname Chadless almost certainly began as a joke, as did the theory that the name is an acronym for "card hole aggregate debris". There was indeed a chadless paper tape punch, it was designed so that the chad remained attached to the tape, an example of what later came to be called hanging chad, although in this case, it was deliberate and did not cause read errors. ...
• There was never a chadless keypunch! The classic IBM punched card readers of the first half of the 20th century were prone to jams, and a piece of hanging chad, particularly one firmly hinged at one end, would have almost certainly guaranteed a jam. Only with the advent of the vacuum pick, as most fully developed in the Documation card reader in the early 1970's, did hanging chad become something that would not jam the reader and might even survive a trip through the mechanism. ...
• Figure 2:  Hanging chad seen from the back of a prescored ballot. ...
• Hanging Chad, n. ... CHAD (sense 4) that is only partially detatched from the card from which it was punched: TRAPDOOR CHAD (if hanging by 2 corners), DANGLING CHAD (if hanging by 1 corner). ...

• hanging chad I was just filling out parts of my ballot--the issues and races I have made my mind up on already--when I noticed a hanging chad. ... ) Since we are doing this at home, we have to find a pencil, put the pencil on the dot in the middle of the chad, and lift the card up swiftly. ... When I was done punching out the numbers for the night, I realized that the chad for one of the numbers was not completely detached. ...

• Dont Be a Hanging Chad .

• 06/18/2003: STUCK ON A HANGING CHAD .

• DC: America's Hanging Chad.
• "Election 2000 focused the world's attention on the now infamous 'hanging chad', symbolizing the promise of democracy denied to thousands of voters," said Ilir Zherka, Executive Director of DC Vote. ... Washingtonians are no more than the 'hanging chads' of America - allowed to complete a ballot but never having their vote count. ... The culprit was the hanging chad. For over two hundred years, the District of Columbia is America's hanging chad. DC Vote activists, supporters and elected officials rallied at a Chevy Chase, MD polling place dressed as 'hanging chads' to raise public awareness about the injustice suffered by Washingtonians every election day. ...

• Rally of the Hanging Chads.
• Who can forget the debacle in Florida that brought us the "hanging chad!" DC Vote volunteers dressed up as "hanging chads" at the Friendship Heights Village Center polling place this past Election Day. That the "hanging chad" continues to deny democracy to residents of the District of Columbia. ...

• Chad row.
• Yet not everyone in the country was hanging on the fate of every hanging chad. Why, incredibly enough, one Hollywood friend of mine didn't even know what a chad was -- he actually thought I meant that North African nation with the red, yellow and blue flag. Which means he knew less than nothing about hanging chads, dimpled chads, pregnant chads. ...
• Send them to the actual country of Chad, where elections are said to be even more badly run. My favorite: bundle them all up and send them to the winner, our new Chad Man. ...
• David, accountant, upstate New York: "Throw them in the Delaware so we can continue the Chad Run every spring. Why don't you ask Chad Mitchell, Chad Everett or Chad Ogea? Or ship them to Chaddsford and let Wyeth paint them. Put them aboard the chad-danooga choo choo, leaving Pennsylvania station about quarter to four, read a magazine and you're in Balluhmur. ...
• Rich, printer, San Francisco: "Until lately, a lot of these neo nazis thought that 'hanging chad' was what they did on Saturday night when they got to wear their Casper the not-so-friendly ghost bed sheets and imperial dunce caps at the weekly meeting of the chapter of the Southern Knights of the Klu Klux Klan. ...
• John, activist/cartoonist, Pennsylvania: "Chads must henceforth be made of organic, chlorine-free, preferably hemp-based fiber to protect the health of chad consumers. ...
• Pam, activist, Philadelphia: "Turn each chad into a little political button: .

• First of Its Kind Ruling Will Require California to Replace Hanging Chad Voting Machines in Time for 2004 Presidential Elections.
• Jones suit, a ruling that will require California to get rid of its "hanging chad" voting machines by 2004. ... quot;This landmark decision means that by 2004, 'hanging chad' machines will go the way of black-and-white TV's, 8-track tapes, and the Edsel," said ACLU staff attorney Dan Tokaji. ...
• Judge Wilson's most recent decision, however, means that no trial will be necessary because of the clear evidence that California can replace its "hanging chad" machines by 2004. ... "Because of this decision, voting in California will move out of the dark ages before the 2004 Presidential election, and we will not have to fear the chaos and uncertainty that 'hanging' and 'dimpled' chads caused in Florida in 2000. ...

• Election 2000: Hanging, Swinging and Pregnant Chads .
• As shown in Illustration A at right (highlighted area), a dangling piece of paper, referred to as a 'chad,' remains attached to the voter's card. As the card passes through the electronic reader, the chad can cause the machine to miscount the ballot.
• A National Bureau of Standards review found that, "Clearly, there were problems of hanging chad" (see Illustration B at right). ...
• Illustration A: The Chad Factor In Florida's Recount.

• Text Format Recount of Undervotes, 1 Corner Hanging Chad.
• Text Format Recount of Undervotes, 2 Corner Hanging Chad.
• Text Format Recount of Undervotes, 3 Corner Hanging Chad.
• Text Format Recount of Undervotes, 1 Corner Hanging Chad.
• Text Format Recount of Undervotes, 2 Corner Hanging Chad.
• Text Format Recount of Undervotes, 3 Corner Hanging Chad.
• Text Format Recount of Undervotes, 1 Corner Hanging Chad.
• Text Format Recount of Undervotes, 2 Corner Hanging Chad.
• Text Format Recount of Undervotes, 3 Corner Hanging Chad.

• 2625 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 As soon as Americans thought they heard the last of “hanging chad,” the nuisance is back again.
•   Enemies of the punch card have portrayed the ballot as a completely inaccurate system that is fraught with hanging chads.
•   But what does it take to screw up a punch-card ballot?  Having worked as an election judge, and having tested the punch cards to ensure that they worked properly, I can say that a voter must make a conscious effort to fowl up his or her ballot to result in a “hanging chad. ”  The voting stylus has to be jammed in the hole at an angle of forty-five degrees or more from vertical to cause the infamous “trap-door chad. ...

• Chad -- From waste product to headline.
• What is Chad? .
• The Risk of Chad Jams .
• Chad Jams in Election 2000 .
• Clearing Chad Jams .
• Did you really want information about Chad, the nation? .
• What is Chad?.
• Figure 1:  Punched-card chad created by a keypunch. ...
• Chad, n. ...
• Chad began as a collective noun, like chaff and wheat. An individual punching from paper or cardstock is a piece of chad, as with a grain of wheat or a flake of chaff. Only in the context of Votomatic voting devices has CHAD come to be used as a singular noun, with the plural form CHADS. Historical usage within IBM appears to have favored CHIPS as the term for punchings for punched cards, but it seems that paper-tape machines, particularly teletypes, have had chad boxes (to catch the chad under the paper tape punch mechanism) for years, although in the 1920's, the term used in that domain was punchings. By the 1960's, the term chad was widely used to describe the chips from keypunches, and every keypunch had a chad box. ...
• The theory that chad is a back formation from the surname Chadless almost certainly began as a joke, as did the theory that the name is an acronym for "card hole aggregate debris". There was indeed a chadless paper tape punch, it was designed so that the chad remained attached to the tape, an example of what later came to be called hanging chad, although in this case, it was deliberate and did not cause read errors. ...

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