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4 advances to the
previous candidate unless you are on the first candidate of the race,
in which case it advances to the first candidate in the previous
race. It doesn't act quite the same as a prev race
key.
Note that the
current accounting keypad has the 8 at top, 2 at bottom. This as got to
change but lets keep that convention for discussion purposes to avoid
confusion. You said 8-uparrow for next race, while I assume you meant
previous race.
Adding 2/8 next/prev
race keys is pretty trivial. It does potentially mean a longer list of
instructions every candidate though: 5 keys to explain instead of 3.
This is why the idea was rejected in the initial design. Is everyone
comfortable with increasing the instruction list? I am not entirely.
Perhaps this is a reasonable thing to make an option.
If we do add 8/2, then the current behavior of 4 when at the
top of a race is redundant with the previous race key. If there is a
previous race key, then previous candidate should advance to the last candidate
of the previous race, not the first.
As a final
note, keep in mind that voting is largely a linear process. The
only reason a voter would want to be skipping ahead though races is if they
go (way) back to a previous race and then want to move forward.
Right now moving forward through voted races is a bit tedious because even
the candidates that cannot be voted nor canceled are played. An option to
skip those candidates automatically is in the works, and may render this whole
discussion moot.
Ken
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