I still haven't figured out what the problem was with those punch-card ballots. We use them in Illinois all the time, and while we certainly have some interesting elections, I've never heard any of their problems attributed to the ballot design.
The problem with the ballots is that Democrat poll workers spoiled a bunch of Bush votes by pushing long, thin rods through Dole's chads, and then pretended that the poor, ignorant Democrat voters hadn't understood how to use them.
Never mind that Democrats designed the ballots and controlled the voting booths.
because in illinois, even our voters who are dead know how to properly punch out a chad
Quite simple, really. Some Dem operative in 2000 got the number wrong when he was gang-punching stacks of ballots. He ended up punching "Buchanan". Since this created a statistically unlikely scenario for Palm Beach Co., the Dem spin machine leaped into action with the "confusing butterfly ballot" cover story.
"I still haven't figured out what the problem was with those punch-card ballots."
Nothing. It was simply the the excuse they manufatured to demand a recount so they could pull Gore votes out of thin air. Not enough votes this time? Recount 'em again.