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Re: Spyrus units going down -March 2002

Perhaps a solution is to keep live voter cards for each ballot available in every voting location as a contingency should all Spyrus units die in one voting location.  A less costly solution at $2.00 per card.
 
Greg
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To: Bugs
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 6:20 PM
Subject: Spyrus units going down -March 2002

we sent 40 spyrus units out to the polls for the March Primary and there were 20 for the polls and 20 backups - of those 7 failed -  died- had squares going across them - we changed out batteries after they were replaced and it didn't help
 
One thing that we noticed was they were in the same geographic area - (spooky) and they were  very close in sequence numbers 196-200 and a couple others.
 
I do not think that we should have to rely on more than one backup for each location and if that is the case we need to rethink our using the Spyrus at all -
 
The fact that there were 8 keys being used may have something to do with it - but I do not know - and if it does why didn't all of them fail
 
We need to determine the cause and the solution- I have returned the questionable units to TX and hope to have some resolution -
 
We could have coded them in the field had the poll book been accessible - but it was not.
Thanks
Tari