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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (87004)11/24/2000 10:30:20 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
You are wrong on several facts.

1. Punch card tabulators were first used in the 1890's (this is the late nineteenth century, not the early eighteenth).

2. The punch cards and readers used in the South Florida vote were first designed by IBM in the 1950's.

3. It is easy to punch a hole if the machine is working properly. However, if the machine has filled up with chad left by previous voters, this chad can clump behind the ballot and make it difficult to register a vote. So there are other reasons for dimpled chad besides weak pressure.
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