0 the piece that you remove when you make a hole in a piece of paper or card --
1 a country in Central Africa --
The card punchers in some cases became clogged with chads which prevented ballots from punching completely through, resulting in an undervote.
Ticket punches also have decorative uses, involving both their perforations and their chads.
In making these perforations, the perforator cuts small round pieces of paper, known in the art as "chads", out of the tape.
For more elaborate chads, a ticket punch can be used.
A hole punch can be used to make small round chads.
The case is also noteworthy for the issue of hanging chads in punch-card voting machines.
Curiously, the equivalent of hanging chads could arrive in our political system, with a great dislocation.
