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To: lawdog who wrote (94673)	11/29/2000 6:28:43 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

<<Could it become full? I mean, is it possible for a box to fill up with chads?>> About the same as it's possible for you to grow wings and fly to the moon. A chad is a itty bitty thing. Lays nicely in the box. My guess is that it would take at least 100,000 to fill a box. If they ever filled the box the next voter would notice his stylus didn't go to the bottom and report the problem. It would also keep any votes from counting. Nice try though. Takes an idiot to fuck up on a votomatic. I mean too stupid to breathe.

To: lawdog who wrote (94673)	11/29/2000 6:36:20 PM
From: Mighty_Mezz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

I mean, is it possible for a box to fill up with chads? It's not the box filling up that causes the problem. It's the area directly behind the hole in the punch card machine. It's like when a hole punch gets jammed up and you have to take a pen and poke the old, jammed in pieces of paper out before it'll punch a clean hole. They've seen this problem on punch-card machines before. It gets worse over time. In elections with fewer candidates, they've not used column 1 at all, to save wear and tear. The one good thing to come of this is it may bring about and end to those old-tech punch card ballots. What county election commission is going to chance going through this again? ... Mezz -