Although, uh, one of us had a bit of a dimpled chad situation.

尽管某人" 基" 情爆发 难以自控。

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

谢了 我仍着迷我的选举牌。

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

相信我, 今晚你的牌子起来。

Whether it was " hanging chads, " " pregnant chads" or " dimpled chads, " it amounted to the same problem.

无论是“悬吊的乍”，“怀孕的乍”，还是“带酒窝的乍”，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.

味着当选民做出选择时，投票机并没有干净地打出一张称为乍的纸。

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，些设备最初被视为能够解决打卡设备太过陈旧造成的“孔屑废票”等问题的一剂良药。

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，投票改用纸质选票和光学扫描仪（从此再也出现所谓的“蝴蝶选票”或者“孔屑废票”了）还对用误差范围为0.5%的机器重新统计选票做出了硬性要求。