Problems with perforated ballot cards replaced problems with butterfly ballots.

"In all candor," Judge Burton said, "determining intent from a ballot card is impossible."

Voters must fully punch through their ballot cards.

Other votes were invalidated because paper tabs called chads did not properly detach from ballot cards.

Under state law, he said, voters who punch their ballot cards incorrectly are supposed to receive a second or third ballot so they can try again.

And the real problem came in, not so much on a ballot card that looked like this, which is clearly dimpled.

Voting was delayed in several stations because of shortages in ballot cards and ink.

Voters in Nassau had to punch three separate ballot cards, he said: one for the presidential race, and two for state and local races.

Well, certainly at minimum, Justice Breyer, the penetration of the ballot card would we required.

Finally, the voters returned the ballot cards to the sign-in table where the ballot was read from the card into the electronic "ballot box"