----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 4:02
PM
Subject: RE: Absentee / Polling Header
Cards
Steve - Just a heads up. My experience
with the combination of Xikon printing and the heat generated from the postal
type sorting leads me to believe that the optical scan ballots could have
significant "bleed"/"overprint" issues after a few high speed sorts.
I
would like to see this process significantly tested before we even present
this process to Alameda as a viable "solution".
Needed for Testing in August 2001 for
Alameda:
(Disussed with Tab last week and Jeff
Dean several weeks ago).
Need ability in GEMS to generate Header Card artwork,
such that precinct number or name can be printed onto the Header Card by
Spectrum digital printing process.
Background: Large account (Alameda - 1117 precincts)
wants to do automated inserting using ballot styles, not precinct IDs.
This way they "pull" the ballots the night before from only approx. 125
stacks of ballots rather than 1117 stacks. Using the automated sorting
capability on the incoming side, the ballots will be presorted by precinct,
and processed several times via central count during the 7 days prior to the
election.
The customer wants to take the presorted precinct ballots,
place a header card for that precinct in front of the cards (either
provisional or absentee) and process the op scan ballots. They will
print up 4 or 5 Header cards for each precinct for a large election, but
they do not want to have to look at a report that tells them to insert
Header #299 for Precinct 205800. They want the PRECINCT No. or Name
printed by Spectrum on the Header card and to order Headers for each
election.
Steve Knecht
Global Election Systems
415-893-9941
office 415-893-9951 fax
415-225-6591
cell