Meaning of hanging chad | Babel Free

Definitions

A piece of punch-through paper on a voting ballot that has not fully detached from the card-stock.

Examples

“The Gore campaign hopes there are enough ballots with unattached or “hanging” chads next to Gore’s name to give him the lead in Florida — and with it, the presidency.”

“They were introduced to the mysteries of the 'hanging chad' and left wondering at the absence of both a federal electoral agency and a uniform ballot paper and the fact that the electoral processes in the vital State of Florida appeared to be in the partisan hands of a brother of one of the two candidates.”

“But, I mean, for me here's the basic thing. How plausible is it that a woman would fix an election because she's obsessed with me? I mean, where's the hanging chad?”

“Even that number, of course, is open to argument: How do we count a partially punched ballot, the so-called hanging chad?”

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