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1 posted on 09/15/2003 8:02:02 PM PDT by Recourse

To: Chad Fairbanks

No explanation necessary.

2 posted on 09/15/2003 8:03:18 PM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (Boo.)

To: Recourse; Liz; Howlin; ALOHA RONNIE

Chad? Chad can bite me...

3 posted on 09/15/2003 8:04:32 PM PDT by Libloather (And it STILL isn’t safe enough to vote DemocRAT…)

4 posted on 09/15/2003 8:05:39 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (... you'd look like the Venus de Milo, if I just cut off your arms...)

Actually, from what I understand, the name "Chad", according to my mother, means "Annoying little thing you can't get rid of".

Prophetic, that woman.

7 posted on 09/15/2003 8:12:06 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (... you'd look like the Venus de Milo, if I just cut off your arms...)

8 posted on 09/15/2003 8:13:36 PM PDT by Chunga

We use this method of voting in our County here in Pa. and have never had a problem with it. Never heard of chads until Fla., 2000. It is a very simple method of voting.

10 posted on 09/15/2003 8:16:09 PM PDT by mom-7

Yikes! The Lie Returns, at a California theater near you!

16 posted on 09/15/2003 8:34:57 PM PDT by ladyinred (The left have blood on their hands.)

What about thos masturbating Chads? worse than the pregnant mothers....

25 posted on 09/15/2003 8:54:20 PM PDT by woofie

In the tight race for votes in Florida, it opened the question of what really counts as a vote - a clear hole in a ballot paper, or a bulge?

It is physically impossible for a person to punch a stylus fully into the hole in the Vote-o-matic without breaking at least two of the four corners off a chad. Given that the instructions on the machine very clearly state that the stylus must be pushed all the way down, and includes a picture of the correct operation, and given that the strength required is not unreasonable, anyone who fails to do so cannot possibly be reasonably deemed to have voted.

While there may conceivably be some question regarding swinging chads, I think it very unlikely given the design of the machine that such things were an issue, at least on legitimately-cast ballots. At least on the cards I remember, if the card was inserted into the top of the machine, the chads would swing left or right (rather than vertically). There was nothing that could push them "swung shut"; instead they'd be removed by a scraper (if the stylus didn't remove them cleanly first).

The Democrats needed an excuse to bolux the 2000 election. That's the only reason for this whole fiasco. Not that any significant number of legitimately-cast votes were miscounted, but rather to promote FUD, while perhaps as a bonus also covering up evidence of fraud.

35 posted on 09/15/2003 9:16:38 PM PDT by supercat (TAG--you're it!)

No discussion of how stacking ballots and attempting to punch several (fake) ballots at once will create dimpled chads?

41 posted on 09/16/2003 1:20:47 AM PDT by weegee

Chad? "What about the groovy me?', said Jeremy!

45 posted on 09/16/2003 10:52:02 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (I'm more ignorant than you, you wanna a bet?!)

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