• DoctorWhookah@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    One thing that I learned from that election is the small perforated dot in the ballot that is punched out with the little pokey thing is called a chad.

    Some ballots were thrown out because of the “hanging chad”; meaning the chad was still attached to the back of the ballot. Pretty sure all those ballots were for Gore.

    • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca
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      10 months ago

      And the butterfly voting machine where candidates were on the left and right side of a centre column of buttons. Causing many people that intended to vote for Gore to vote for someone else