ballots in Florida had "hanging chad" To clarify, those were not machine punched, they were pre-perforated with the appropriate hole to be punched by the user,

ballots in Florida had "hanging chad" To clarify, those were not machine punched, they were pre-perforated with the appropriate hole to be punched by the user, using a stylus, via a printed template that contained the card (holes not referenced directly). We still use the same mechanism in Silicon Valley, sad to say.