The rest was history, hanging chads and the high court until Mr. Gore made another phone call to end the thing for good on Dec. 13.

其余的大家都知道了，挂角票【注】和最高法院重新计票之类，直到戈尔先生在十二月13日再次打电话让事情有个善终。

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Not the ones with hole-punches and their chads, hanging, swinging and dimpled.

不像那些打孔机和打出来的孔屑，垂悬，旋转和起波纹。

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There, the punch card system gave rise to dimpled ballots and hanging chads, leaving electoral officials to scrutinise ballot papers to decipher the voter's intention.

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And then, also, some of the things that have happened in past elections such as the Hanging chads in a district that was not covered by pre-clearance, some things that have happened in Wisconsin that have not been covered under pre-clearance, Missouri, give them an opportunity to come into this system and have some of the positive results that happened in the South.

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