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 in the show, they would make fun of Ted for wearing an outdated costume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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A chad is the little paper circle that is punched out by a hole puncher. It’s an individual confetto found in a hole puncher. A hanging chad is a paper circle that does complete detach from the rest of the sheet of paper that has been hole punched. The paper chad was a major topic during the 2000 election because ballots would require you to hole punch a circle next to the candidate’s name. The election was so close that courts need to rule on how partially hole punched ballots should be counted.
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