0 a small piece that is still partly attached to a piece of paper or card after someone has tried to make a hole in it, for example as a way of showing who they are voting for in an election:
Remember all those ballots that had to be recounted in Florida after the 2000 presidential election because of hanging chads?
Was a hanging chad a clear signal of a vote? How many corners had to be detached to constitute a hanging chad and to constitute a legal vote?
According to him, this statute gave voters in Florida the right to have their ballots counted if they left a hanging chad or if they failed to punch their chad all the way through.
