> > How about incorporating the
>
election/jurisdiction/precinct/party info with
> > the language option
page? The text would change as you selected the
> >
language.
>
> You lost me.
Sorry to follow up to my own post,
but I follow Rob's suggestion now. Yes, if we stored the
base/report precinct labels in multiple languages, then we would show the
precinct in that language when the voter selected it.
The problem is, we
don't. In fact, we don't store many election items in multiple
languages: base/report precinct, district, vote center, counter group, and
election title. Only race, candidate, headers, and voter groups have RTF
editors.
For example, it is also reasonable to ask we put the vote
center and counter group on the AccuVote-TS instruction page. So
the screen might look
like:
Election:
Presidential General
Jurisdiction: S.I.T.W.
Nebraska
Vote Center: 5th Avenue United
Church
Type*:
Early Voting
Precinct: Lakewood
10 Combo 108 School
B
Party:
Purple Party
[*as opposed to Challenged or Polling, say]
The question is, do we want to
have multilingual support for all these election items? The design so far
has been that the ballots are multilingual, but the election
reporting is in English.
Obviously, we need RTF for races,
candidate, and headers. We added a RTF editor to the voter
group dialog because of Steve's multi-line party text RCR, and because the
party is printed automatically on the ballot for endorsed candidates. This
is not a big change even for english-only jurisdictions since there are not many
parties, and everyone gets the benefit of greater flexibility, like party
icons and multi-line text.
It is another matter to make them enter rich text for all
the base precincts. I am going to go out on a limb and say that is not
reasonable.
Ken