The Official US President Election Thread

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Originally Posted by jerseydevil

Hanging chad was caused by punch cards. People either didn't push the stylis all the way through (generally caused the pregnant chad) or the "chad" became dislodged during the numerous times it was handled. Anyway - basically it was just dangling from the ballot. If that happened to me - I would rip off the chad before handing it in. A chad is just a perferated disc which is bunched out of the ballot to mark the vote.

I usually spend time look over everything - about a minute or 2 to make sure I have everything marked right and I didn't miss anything.

I knew what the chad was, but I wasn't quite sure how the "danglers" came to be. Thanks for clearing that one up.
I would check my ballot too (I already do, even though all we have to do is mark an X in a square, you'd really have to be a git to mess Canadian ballots up) - given all the effort we put into researching who you vote for, I darn well want my vote to count.

Originally Posted by jerseydevil

Well democrats like to call this - "disenfrancisement", but he hasn't stated any of his position on this matter concerning illegal immigration. They also argue that illegal aliens should be allowed to get drivers licenses in California. Excuse me - they ARE ILLEGAL - they aren't even supposed to be HERE - so why the hell do we give them free health care, free education and why are students who are ILLEGAL able to apply and get scholarships which are meant for US citizens? Why would they or should they get a drivers license in this country? It's not being against immigration - it's being against ILLEGAL immigration.

Erm... it would be disenfranchisement if they were US citizens. The policy would make more sense if they wanted to have more liberal immigration laws. Whether you agree with that or not is a different matter.