[Mr. K]

remember the Butterfly Ballot??? I have been thinking about that, and who could have dreamed up such a design.

I mean a metal strip between folding sheets of paper?????

The ONLY reason I can think of was that they could stack a bunch of them and poke a hole through their candidate thereby invalidating any vote for anyone else. (two holes)

If the metal strip was not there you could not push a pencil through a stack of them.

What other purpose could there be for that metal strip or that ridiculous design??

[Cold Heat]

It's not the written ballot that they counted, it was the IBM punch card underneath it. You pushed a poker through the hole in the ballot and hit the card.