From todays NYT "In Stress of Recount, Complaints get Bizarre" by Lynette Holloway - Plantation Fla.
......Matthew C. Rhoades, 25 a research analyst for The Republican National Comitee, said that on Friday he saw a Democratic counter in the room eating a chad, the piece of the punch-card ballot that is supposed to fall out when a voter punches in his choice.
"We couldn't find a camera," Mr. Rhoades said,"and we were about to sweep them off the table. But right before that, a Democratic counter put one on his finger, joking around, held it up and then threw it in his mouth."
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......Matthew C. Rhoades, 25 a research analyst for The Republican National Comitee, said that on Friday he saw a Democratic counter in the room eating a chad, the piece of the punch-card ballot that is supposed to fall out when a voter punches in his choice.
"We couldn't find a camera," Mr. Rhoades said,"and we were about to sweep them off the table. But right before that, a Democratic counter put one on his finger, joking around, held it up and then threw it in his mouth."
- bill 11-20-2000 3:45 pm