RE: Central Count - Switching Vote Centers

["Ken Clark" <ken@dieboldes.com>]

 >1.   Run a batch of ballots through a central count reader with batch number
>x voter group 'Add-on'.  Run the batch ender card.
>
>2.   Switch to voter group 'Absentee' on the central count server.  
>
>3.   Run a batch of ballots through a central count reader with the same
>batch number x.
>
>4.    Run the batch ender card.   At this point, the central count server
>fails with the "instruction @" message.

These are essentially the steps I used to try to reproduce the problem.  To elaborate on step two, I shut down central count before changing vote centers, as not to pollute the test with the other bug.

 

I guess I need a copy of the database as it is after step 2 above, and the number of the batch card that will make it crash by following steps 3 and 4 on it.  Make sure they run that test themselves before going through the trouble to send the full database, as well as trying the test database I sent in the last mail (to see if it is dependent on their database).

 >Note:   We do NOT want the capability of running the same batch number in
>two different voter groups.   This was discovered only when trying
>unsuccessfully to replicate a problem observed by Mark earlier.

The batch cards are independent of vote centers.

 

Ken