[blackdog]

Due to your tag line, I have to ask you this question......

On dimpled chads or punch ballots, how come they don't fingerprint each one in contested intent?

If there are no fingerprints, it was bulk produced and someone needs to look deeper.

[international american]

Great question, which you answered yourself.

"If there are no fingerprints, it was bulk produced and someone needs to look deeper."

[Xenalyte]

On dimpled chads or punch ballots, how come they don't fingerprint each one in contested intent?

Two reasons.

First, it's harder to lift prints than TV and the movies make it look, and the odds of getting a complete - or even a usable partial - are relatively small.

Second, so what if fingerprints show up? The ballots don't feed themselves into the vote-counting machine; someone has to feed them, and probably not wearing gloves while so doing.