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The Hanging Chad, Yeah...Let’s Not Do That Again
March 3, 2016
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hanging-chad-yeahlets-do-again-caitlin-maple
Some of Florida’s antiquated voting systems required voters to punch out triangular shapes in their ballots to mark their choices. These punch card ballots had an inherent flaw: they weren’t exactly reliable.
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Where Are They Now?: The hanging chad guy
September 23, 2012
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/23/where-are-they-now-the-hanging-chad-guy/
Even today, the photo remains iconic, the snapshot seen ‘round the world: a man holding a magnifying glass, eyebrows furrowed in concentration, peering at a disputed punch card ballot, riddled with questionable holes.
This was Florida. The 2000 presidential election. The recount. Democracy hanging by a chad. And as for the guy in the picture, eyes bugging wide, deciding the fate of the free world one drop of Visine at a time?
Turns out he has a name.
“Nobody knows my name, nobody knows who I am,” said Robert Rosenberg, a 69-year-old Florida judge. “But everybody knows the man with the magnifying glass. People look at me and think they know me, only they can’t figure out where or how.
