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Yes, hanging chads created by a machine, punching answers through perforated hole cutouts. Perforated holes, which started to break and fall out more and more as the ballots were counted.

The ballots were fragile, and this is an example of not using pen and paper.

You're actually proving my point here. Keep it simple! Pen and paper is perfectly fine, and all problems with how to handle the marking has been resolved for centuries.

It's change that is the problem here, and change for no sensible reason.

There's nothing to fix, to improve, to resolve with paper ballots. Nothing, except the pocket books of companies pushing ridiculous solutions.



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