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To: tejek who wrote (128644)	11/16/2000 2:50:37 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570578

Ted, I found this bit of a story on the nefarious chads on the floor. I stand by my assessment of whinitude on this one. This morning Republicans began complaining about chads, the scraps of paper that hang from a punch hole in a ballot, which had fallen to the floor. At the request of the Republicans, sheriffs' deputies began collecting the scraps of paper that had fallen on the floor. Deputies collected 78 in all, placing them inside a manila envelope marked "evidence," Ms. Canedy reported. Ed Pozzuoli, the chairman of the Broward Republican Party said the stray chads were an example of the inaccuracy of hand recounts. "It calls into question whether the integrity of the ballot has been maintained," he said. But Suzanne Gunsberger, a Democrat and member of the Broward County canvassing board, said that assessment was ridiculous. She said the chads that were collected from the floor were already hanging from ballots anyway and would have been legal votes in any case and would not change a vote. She also said there was no evidence the chads found on the floor were from the presidential election or other ballot questions. nytimes.com