We used to have to count hundreds of "pinholed" votes we knew were obviously fraudulent just because the laws were such there was no way to discount them. We were told to use our best judgement to determine the "voter's intent" and punch out the pinholed chads or chads near pinholes. Both parties' judges had to agree on which chad was the intended one, but we weren't given the option of discounting the entire ballot as a fake as we shouuld have been. Questionable ballots the machines spit out- which were the pinholed ballots, of course. So by going through the pinholes and making them into clean chad holes, we were unwittingly conducting a coverup operation that would leave no evidence of a pinhole.
Pinholed votes usually show up in black precincts. According to the racist Democrats, this was because black women wore fancy hats that usually were held in place by hatpins, and over the years blacks voted by pulling the ever-so-convenient hatpins out and using them as a stylus to punch the cards, leaving the chads inplace but perforating them or areas near them with a tiny hole.
In reality the hatpin excuse was just to cover for the famous Lib ballot box stuffing tactic of punching multiple ballots "on behalf" of a number of voters who didn't bother to vote and didn't know some Democrat was voting for them. A stylus won't go through a stack of ballots but a hatpin will, so on election eve a hatpin is needed to get enough votes faked in time to put your candidate over the top.
That the Dems went to enormous lengths to do this is a good indicator their popularity is vastly overestimated even in Ilinois.
I understand this, but Obama won 70% of the vote, and Kerry won over 55%. There is no way they actually needed any of those votes. It's just not possible.