Hey All,
My dad told me yesterday what that little tab comes from punching the
ballots is named.
He claims that it is called a "Chad".
Can anyone verify this?
Chadster
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua Bell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 9:53 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: It's Time....
>
>
> John D. Giorgis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> >
> > I personally don't think that a manual recount is a good
> > idea. The prospect of having humans pull 14 hour days
> > reviewing 6 * 10^6 ballots is a poor way of calling an
> > election. Machine recounts are very efficient, and moreover
> > are unbiased in the number of ballots that they miss.
>
> While I don't dispute that humans are poor at doing repetitive tasks,
> machine counts are not necessarily unbiased. I've heard
> mention that the
> punched holes usually leave a flap of paper attached which
> can randomly
> cover or uncover the hole during the process. While one would
> hope that
> this incident is small, and further that it is completely random and
> therefore wouldn't affect the overall results, it is entirely
> conceivable that the *position* of the punch on the paper is
> a factor in
> whether or not this occurs - for example, punches towards the
> center of
> the card could be more likely to exhibit this covering effect than
> punches towards the outside of the card.
>
> Pure speculation, of course, and I doubt that's the case. But never
> assume blindly that machines are unbiased.
>
> Joshua
>
