Whether it was " hanging chads, " " pregnant chads" or " dimpled chads, " it amounted to the same problem.

无论是“悬吊的乍得”，“怀孕的乍得”，还是“带酒窝的乍得”，都是相同的问题。

A grueling 36-day Florida recount battle stemmed from problems with the state's punch card machines where poor ballot design left hanging chads on some ballots.

佛罗里达州进行了为期36天的艰苦的重新计票之战，原因是该州穿孔卡片机的问题，糟糕的选票设计在一些选票上留下了悬挂的小角。

No thanks. I'm sticking with the hanging chad.

不 谢了 我仍着迷我的选举牌。

No need to be bashful, chad.

不用害羞 查德。

Trust me, by the end of the night, your chad will not be hanging.

相信我, 今晚你的牌子不会挂起来。

It meant that a voting machine had not cleanly punched out a bit of paper, called a chad, when the voter made a choice.

这意味着当选民做出选择时，投票机并没有干净地打出一张称为乍得的纸。

Some 30 states use so-called direct-recording devices, usually with electronic screens, that were initially seen as an antidote to hanging chads and other foibles resulting from archaic punch-card devices.

大约30个州都在选举中用了所谓的直接记录设备，通常带有电子屏幕，这些设备最初被视为能够解决打卡设备太过陈旧造成的“孔屑废票”等问题的一剂良药。

In Florida, legislators rewrote state laws, switched to paper ballots and optical scanners (no more butterfly ballots or hanging chads), and mandated automatic recounts for races with margins of half a percentage point.

佛罗里达州的议员重修了州法律，投票改用纸质选票和光学扫描仪（从此再也不会出现所谓的“蝴蝶选票”或者“孔屑废票”了）还对用误差范围为0.5%的机器重新统计选票做出了硬性要求。