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Hanging Chads

Hanging Chads: Chad refers to fragments sometimes created when holes are made in a paper, card or similar synthetic materials, such as punched cards.

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Chad refers to fragments sometimes created when holes are made in a paper, card or similar synthetic materials, such as punched cards. A "hanging chad" is a chad that is incompletely removed.

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Glossary of Election Terms, U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC)

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