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Rainer Rosenthal wrote in message ...
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>MJP wrote kindly
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>> Main Entry:chad
>> Pronunciation:*chad
>> Function:noun
>> Etymology:origin unknown
>> Date:1947
>>
>>  : small pieces of paper or cardboard produced in
>> punching paper tape or data cards;
>> also : a piece of chad
>>   chad-less \-l*s\  adjective
>
>Thank you.
>If the reference is an online one, could you please
>be so kind and tell me the URL?
>
>I am still a little uncertain, whether I guessed correctly.
>I am not really sure about the "hanging chad". This must
>be something special I don't know.

This goes back to the suspicious events surrounding the voting system in
Florida used during the elections that saw George W. Bush being elected as
US President.

The "hanging chad" refers to the fact that a large number of the voting
cards were badly manufactured, and so the chads that the voters pushed
through to choose their candidate were loose.

This meant that, by the time the votes were being counted, the loose chads
were either hanging by a thread, or had fallen off entirely.

Each of these cards had to be marked as "null votes" because there were two
or more chads that had been pushed through the card, as though the voter had
voted for multiple candidates.

--
Graeme Porter
   -^-_  _
   / [_][_]_:_  Proud owner of a 1978
  /|  _||_  v  Pearl Fiberglass Shell kit
   | /    \ |
-=/=\\____//=\=jaa  "I married Miss right, I just didn't
                     know her first name was 'Always'"
                                       -- Anonymous

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