Do Hanging Chads Exist Anymore after 2000?

[Stallion]

I guess most of those voting machines were eliminated. Just feeling a little nostalgic for the "bad ole days"

[DEbluedude]

1. They hang lower.

[Sedona]

5. I see what you did there

[DEbluedude]

9. Couldn't resist

[BusyBeingBest]

2. Well, there was the Great Sharpie Shenanigans of Arizona on Nov. 4th, 2020.

From about 9 am to mid afternoon. It died out pretty quick though.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. If Sharpies are good enough for presidential signatures on executive orders, ... nt

[Saboburns]

3. Only on the ballots of Democrats it seems

nt

[Stallion]

4. I guess CHAD Wolfe's Nomination is still HANGING

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. Sometime in the 1980s, in Phoenix, AZ, I voted on a "butterfly ballot"

where you punched out your choice, just like the thing in Florida. I was outraged. It was essentially impossible to double check and make sure you'd voted the way you wanted to.

We then moved to Colorado, so I have no idea if that kind of ballot stayed on for any length of time.

I now live in New Mexico where we use paper ballots. Before you leave the polling place it's run through a machine to make sure you didn't double vote or not vote a particular race or bond issue or whatever. Nice.

[lastlib]

7. Seems a lot of states have gone to some kind of optical-scan ballots

You mark 'em with a dark ink, and run them thru a scanner that optically counts your votes. Pretty efficient.

[LisaL]

10. I don't think anybody uses this method anymore.

NT