I voted Michigan absentee ballot for 20 years while doing my Air Force time. It was a punch card. You take the stylus, which is about like a paper clip wire, and punch it through the number on the punch card, which was backed by a styrofoam sheet. The simple instructions told you to punch all the way through, and then to check to make sure the chad was completely detached.
There are no "dimpled", "pregnant", or "hanging" chads, unless you are illiterate and incompetent, in which case you have no idea what you are voting for anyway, so you're an idiot who will vote for whatever self-destructive crap that comes down the pike. You should be barred from voting, just as a two-year-old should be barred from handling a sharp knife. That whole recount was complete Nonsense, for the umpteenth time, and it's time for you Moveon.org types to get over it and move on. Being stupid is not something you should proclaim to the world, yet you trumpet it to the highest heavens. "I'm stupid! I'm stupid!"
Funny, the Left says we are all ignorant right-wingers, and yet for their base they largely depend on people they say are too stupid to vote with a punch card!
G'nite, folks -- one more stop over at the SwiftVet site & then I'm hittin' the sack!
This is another excellent point. What you are saying is true and should be boldly put forth without fear of not being PC. Pregnant chads, which from memory in 2000, definitely should not be looked at but I remember the Dems fighting to get thiose counted if they were for Gore or if it was in a predom. Dem. precinct.
Hanging chads are another thing but still, a standard has to be determined beforehand and stuck with. Once you start allowing exceptions to this then it will take months and months to ever determine who is the president.
There has to be conventions established and if a voter is so sloppy as to not 'pay attention', then they do it at their own peril. And this is assuming the best case scenario for the Dems, assuming everything they say about racial profiling is true.