"hanging chad" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2000 November 14, “Presidency Hinges on Chad”, in ABC News",
          "text": "The Gore campaign hopes there are enough ballots with unattached or “hanging” chads next to Gore’s name to give him the lead in Florida — and with it, the presidency.",
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          "ref": "2002, Prisoners as Citizens: Human Rights in Australian Prisons, page 308",
          "text": "They were introduced to the mysteries of the 'hanging chad' and left wondering at the absence of both a federal electoral agency and a uniform ballot paper and the fact that the electoral processes in the vital State of Florida appeared to be in the partisan hands of a brother of one of the two candidates.",
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          "ref": "2006, 01:44:42 from the start, in Man of the Year",
          "text": "But, I mean, for me here's the basic thing. How plausible is it that a woman would fix an election because she's obsessed with me? I mean, where's the hanging chad?",
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          "ref": "2014, Jordan Ellenberg, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, page 401",
          "text": "Even that number, of course, is open to argument: How do we count a partially punched ballot, the so-called hanging chad?",
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        "A piece of punch-through paper on a voting ballot that has not fully detached from the card-stock."
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "pregnant chad"
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          "ref": "2000 November 14, “Presidency Hinges on Chad”, in ABC News",
          "text": "The Gore campaign hopes there are enough ballots with unattached or “hanging” chads next to Gore’s name to give him the lead in Florida — and with it, the presidency.",
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          "text": "They were introduced to the mysteries of the 'hanging chad' and left wondering at the absence of both a federal electoral agency and a uniform ballot paper and the fact that the electoral processes in the vital State of Florida appeared to be in the partisan hands of a brother of one of the two candidates.",
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