Reply #9: Votescam may have caused some confusion because the

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Collier brothers investigated both lever machines (from 1970 -1974) and a punch card system (in 1982) in Florida. They filmed and referred to problems with "hanging chads" many years before the 2000 election.

However, I'm not sure how many people actually read this book; it was independently published in 1992 and had a very limited distribution.