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Remember when Chad was simply a rather unusual first name? Then came last November's presidential election and "chad" turned into a household word.
There were dimpled chads, pregnant chads, dangling chads and pitched verbal battles about chads. Chad became the four-letter word of the year and a prime example of archaic election procedures. In a high-tech society, Americans came to realize that the majority of their voting districts were still using 19th century technology-paper ballots to cast votes.
"The only reason we got involved in the voting system was when we watched the last election. We thought, we must be able to do better than this, this is ridiculous. With the worst challenge comes the best results," says Kevin Chung, chief executive officer of Avante International Technology in Princeton Junction.
His company debuted Vote-Trakker, a computerized voting machine, at the 64th annual conference of the New...