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butterfly ballot

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butterfly ballot
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) US a ballot paper in the form of two leaves extending from a central spine
[from its resemblance to a butterfly's wings]
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Hanging chads, a butterfly ballot, and the Supreme Court remain the most vivid memories of that political donnybrook.
Voting technology: the not-so-simple act of casting a ballot by Herrnson, Paul S.; Nieme, Richard G.; Hammer, Michael J. / Elections Today
95 Following the 2000 debacle of hanging chads and butterfly ballots, 42 out of 50 states rushed to install electronic voting systems that were not secure enough for use, writes Rubin, a computer science professor and technical director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University.
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Those who credit Nader with Gore's defeat could just as plausibly argue that the craziness in Florida - starting with butterfly ballots and ending with the U.
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