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

谢了 我仍着迷我的选举牌。

No need to be bashful, chad.

用害羞 查德。

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

相信我, 今晚你的牌子会挂起来。

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天的艰苦的重新计之战，原是该州穿孔卡片的问题，糟糕的选设计在些选上留下了悬挂的小角。

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。

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，并没有干净地打出张称为乍得的纸。

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”等问题的剂良药。

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，改用纸质选和光学扫描仪（从此再也会出现所谓的“蝴蝶选”或者“孔屑废”了）还对用误差范围为0.5%的器重新统计选做出了硬性要求。