California recall election

James A. Landau JJJRLandau at AOL.COM
Tue Oct 7 20:28:36 UTC 2003


Two items of purely philological rather than political interest:
(both from AOL News)

"GOT CHAD?
 Check Your Ballot Card"

(photo credited to Reuters, no explanation, apparently the top page of a
ballot or ballot package in some jurisdiction using punch card voting)

and

[Schwartzenegger] said he had to put on his glasses to read the ballot, which
was several pages long, but the actor said he had no trouble finding his
name."I just went through the pages," he said. "Instead of going through two pages
I just went through 10 pages and you always look for the longest name."



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