They counted the dimpled ballots.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used with object) : A smile dimpled her face.    From Dictionary.com. 

Thus, Texas law includes the counting of so-called dimpled chads.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Democrats Make Case for Upholding Hand Counts - November 25, 2000] Reference

At issue: controversies over so-called dimpled and butterfly ballots.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Breaking News: The Florida Recount: Blizzard of Legal Challenges Freezes Efforts to Reach Final Tally; Bush Campaign Heads to Federal Appeals Court - November 15, 2000] Reference

The board decided to count the so-called dimpled and one-cornered ballots.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Election 2000: Legal Teams For Bush and Gore File Briefs; Manual Counts in Broward and Palm Beach County Continue - November 19, 2000] Reference

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: ... that these so-called dimpled ballots have been counted.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Election 2000: Democrats and Republicans Testify Before Palm Beach County Canvassing Board on Recount Standards - November 24, 2000] Reference

What we didn't do is count all of what they are calling dimpled ballots in Florida.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 22, 2000] Reference

We've got to do it one more time -- it's called the dimpled ballot or the pregnant chad.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Gore Campaign Considers Legal Moves Against Upheld Deadline - November 14, 2000] Reference

Broward County voted to change the way it counts ballots, deciding to allow so-called dimpled ballots.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Election 2000: Legal Teams For Bush and Gore File Briefs; Manual Counts in Broward and Palm Beach County Continue - November 19, 2000] Reference

The Gore campaign fears that they will lose even the manual recount without what's called dimpled ballots.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Montana Governor Marc Racicot Speaks for Bush Campaign - November 19, 2000] Reference

Inside the Broward County courthouse, there is the evaluation of those so-called dimpled ballots is going at full throttle.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Broward, Palm Beach Race to Finish Count Before Deadline - November 25, 2000] Reference

This hearing to determine whether or not those so-called dimpled ballots can be counted and added to any certified vote total.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Judge Charles Burton Testifies on Palm Beach County Canvassing Board's Dimpled Ballot Selection Process - November 22, 2000] Reference

Cellulite is often compared to an orange peel, because it consists of 'dimpled' skin caused by raised fat cells under the skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Best Treatments for Cellulite] Reference

Not so tall as Madeline, and rounded and dimpled as a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference

She gotten her mother's hazel eyes and dimpled smile too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Easter Sunday] Reference

She had a small mole under her left eye and dimpled cheeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Origin] Reference

But wait, sometimes hanging chad don't even hang, they're just dimpled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jay Roach, Steve Carell Pair Up For 'Schmucks'] Reference

Elisabeth smiled and dimpled like a child in the possession of a secret.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

Her hand turned boney first, even as her arms were still fattened and dimpled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The One Ton Woman and the Amazonian Half Man] Reference

Ruth laughed at that, but she dimpled, too, and Miss Cullam joined in the laughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference

And yet there he was, at a counting table in Palm Beach, squinting at dimpled chad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leader Of The Pack] Reference

I feel his dimpled fists digging into my neck, his little fingers entangled in my beard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

"Ah, no!" she sighed softly, and wiped her eyes briskly with the back of her dimpled red hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference

Their breast may also be dimpled like the skin of an orange, and may be tender, itchy, or achy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joan Liebmann-Smith, PhD and Jacqueline Egan: Be Your Own Health Advocate: 5 Body Signs Women Should Heed] Reference

Had the court said anything about how to evaluate those critical chad -- hanging, dimpled or pregnant?.    From Wordnik.com.  [War Of The Weary] Reference

It's enough to make one long for the dimpled chads and disputed recounts in Palm Beach County, Florida.    From Wordnik.com.  [MOMENT OF GLORY?] Reference

Rosy and golden it fell upon the waves, as they tossed and rolled and dimpled to the soft spring breeze.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Homestead] Reference

He raised his eyebrows and gave me a dimpled down-smile and said, “Kate,” my name, by way of goodbye.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birdcage] Reference

Suzette's cheery smile is a delight, and how her sturdy, dimpled arms can scrub, and dust, and cook, and clean.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference

Betty nodded and dimpled bewitchingly as Mr. Bailey, father of ten children, gallantly asked for the next dance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outdoor Girls in Army Service Or, doing their bit for the soldier boys] Reference

Its wings snapped like black sickles, crimping into the dimpled clouds and soaring down, banking against the breeze.    From Wordnik.com.  [from MLKNG SCKLS] Reference

           In walk a pair of women with a toddler who is pressing a Nerf football against his dimpled cheek.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girl Friends] Reference

While the men who would be him argue through surrogates about dimpled chads, he has matters of life and death to decide.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End Of The Janus Presidency] Reference

 Lydia picked up her book and rested her dimpled elbows on the side of the pool, putting the book in front of her face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Community Pool Advisor] Reference

He paws with his fat hands at Dyula's breast, his round-brown cheeks rouged with health and dimpled from a fleeting smile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yamoussoukro, 2012] Reference

Marla's eyes were fixed on nothing, and I was still strangely enrapt by the round dimpled fruit still in the palm of my hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heavenly Blue Morning Glory] Reference