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flukus on Aug 8, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Voting system to be used in West Virginia election...

> It goes back to the "hanging chad" election.

Didn't this only happen because of an attempt to elctronic-ify the election and have machines tabulate the results?

reaperducer on Aug 8, 2018 [–]

I’m not sure how it was handled in Florida (where the infamous chad incident happened), but in at least some other states it was more electromechanical than electronic.

FWIW, the place I voted during that election was straight up mechanical.

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