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Originally Posted by pinksirfidel
Uhhh oooh... Chads are still around? I thought we changed to the "fill-in-the-circle" ballots nation-wide.
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In Illinois, you have to mark your paper ballot with a special pen that we give you & take back before you leave (sounds like rush). We give a piece of paper indicating how to mark the ballot: by drawing a straight line between the head of an arrow and the tail end. As a Pi Phi, I like that arrows are used in the election process. Sounds easy enough? You would be amazed how many "spoiled ballots" are produced by people who can't do it right and have to be coached on how to mark this type of ballot.
As a solution, voters in Chicago are encouraged to vote on the "touch-screen" machines. You put a special card in that is given by the election judge and leave it in until you are done voting. But alot of people are still afraid to do this and want to use a paper ballot. The upside of all this is that no hanging chads are produced!!!
