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 in the show, they would make fun of Ted for wearing an outdated costume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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Further to the explanations, I remember reading – in an Al Franken book, I think – that the issue with hanging chads was already well known and they were most common in voting machines that were older and more worn. Jeb Bush, then governor of Florida, contrived to ensure that these older, less reliable machines were used in strongly Democrat-leaning constituencies.
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