Heavy Handed.The good news is that the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. city elections office on April 10 did not have to contend with hanging and dimpled chads Noun 1. dimpled chad - a chad that has been punched or dimpled but all four corners are still attached dimple, pregnant chad chad - a small piece of paper that is supposed to be removed when a hole is punched in a card or paper tape that plagued the Florida Florida, state, United States Florida (flôr`ĭdə, flŏr`–), state in the extreme SE United States. A long, low peninsula between the Atlantic Ocean (E) and the Gulf of Mexico (W), Florida is bordered by Georgia and elections last November. The bad news is that many of the thin metal styluses used to punch out the chads were destroyed in the process. "They were pushing so hard to make sure that the chads were detached de·tached adj. 1. Separated; disconnected. 2. Standing apart from others; separate. from the ballot that they actually broke the styluses off in the vote recorder devices," said Tom Moutes, assistant chief of the city elections division. "This has never been an issue before." Although each polling place has additional styluses in their supply boxes, he said he received about two dozens calls from pollsters concerned about the problem. Moutes, who did not receive any calls about broken styluses during the last citywide elections in April and June 1999, said he will stock the supply boxes with additional styluses in future elections. |
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