Chads resurrected from 2000 election
Thursday, January 2, 2003 Posted: 2:52 PM EST (1952 GMT)
Collector's item?
TAMPA, Florida (AP) -- It's a chance of a lifetime to own a piece of
history -- chads and all.
Hillsborough County elections officials are giving away 140,000 unused
ballots -- complete with attached chads -- printed for the maligned
punch-card machines retired after the 2000 election debacle, said Pam
Iorio, the county's elections supervisor.
Anyone wanting some free ballots may pick them up during business hours
Thursday or Friday in Iorio's office in downtown Tampa or at the Elections
Service Center in suburban Brandon.
All Florida counties that used punch cards in 2000 have since shifted to
modern voting machines, such as touch-screen systems.
Ballots that were used in the presidential election and its disputed
recounts are sitting in warehouses around the state, while officials decide
whether they should be saved for posterity.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/01/02/offbeat.chads.ap/index.html
Jeroen "Voting is so much easier with Iraqi democracy" van Baardwijk
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