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The people downstairs don't have the answers to
your prior posting. Sorry.
Steve Knecht wrote:
PLEASE
REINSERT MEMORY CARD (so we do)TEXT CHECK ERROR OK TO CONINTUE? (they were saying
yes)PLEASE REINSERT
MEMORY CARD (etc. etc.)TEXT CHECK ERROR OK TO CONTINUE? (if you say yes it goes
to...)TEST BALLOTS and
they continue with their resending results and
testing
modems. Is the
memory card damaged at this point?? If I proceed from TEST BALLOTS
to PREPARE FOR ELECTION and answer yes, turn the machine off and back on
I go back to PLEASE REINSERT MEMORY CARD.
The data is probably damaged. The Accu-Vote is reading data that fails
the text checksum. This means either that the text data has changed
(likely) or that there is a connection problem that is causing a mis-read of
the data. Whether or not the memory card itself is damaged can only be
determined by running a memory card test as is automatically done whenever
the card is formatted.
So the card
seems blown and will not work in the polling place. We've been
saying that cards are getting blown with increased frequency. This
is the 7th card of 114 cards that have blown. If they can get a
card to blow simply by reinserting it in a series of AccuVotes, then it
would seem possible that we can also replicate
this. We are regularly reinserting memory
cards in normal testing up here and I do what I can with the odd one that
gets corrupted. I understand that you're sending me the memory card in
question but I would also really like a record of all the failures that
includes answers to the questions that I have posted previously on the
issue.
Guy
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