I first heard this term in How I Met Your Mother when Ted dressed up as a hanging Chad for Halloween. I tried to look it up & Google basically just said that it was a voting ballot that people used to punch holes out of. But I feel like I’m missing something.. in the show, they would make fun of Ted for wearing an outdated costume
& would tell him that “the hanging Chad reference
Is very old” & that most people wouldn’t understand it. Which signifies some sort of inside joke or understanding, but I don’t get it. please! Thank you!
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Florida. Bush v al glore. The election hung in the balance, there was a lawsuit about… hanging chads.
See, to fill out the multiple choice test, some places in florida thought it would be fun to punch little holes in the paper ballot. It was silly, fun. Then, they started throwing out votes because the holes were double punched or something odd happened to them.
Luckily, Bush’s brother, Jeb bush was governor of flordia. They found ballot boxes in the swamp.
The lawsuit basically could determine the next president (whether or not they could throw out ballots [they did anyway])
Bush wonnered. Trade towers went down. Presidential powers expanded to wage war on any terrorist group at-will, which, apparently, is whole ass countries. And, the world’s been a better place ever since.
Hang in there, chads.
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