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