Description: The Texas
accounts need to have the ability to print an SOVC report where any
precincts that have under five ballots cast in early voting/absentee
(absentee/cumulative counter group
selection) have only zeros
displayed in their totals fields and the totals from those
precincts then accumulated and displayed at the end of the precinct
list but before the grand total line in a line labeled "Under
Fives". This would be best implemented as a check box in the "Show
Options" labeled as "Separate Under
Fives"
Motivation: Texas State Law requires that early voting/absentee results
for precincts where under
five ballots have been cast cannot be released by
precinct.
The text of the Texas Election Code
follows:
Title
7, Section 87.1231.
(a) Not later than the
time of the local canvass, the early voting clerk shall deliver to the
local canvassing authority a report of the total number of early voting
votes for each candidate or measure by election precinct. The report
may reflect the total for votes by mail and the total for votes by
personal appearance.
(b) The early voting clerk may not report vote totals
under Subsection (a) for an election precinct in which fewer than five
votes are cast during the early voting period
Attached is a sample current SOVC and a
representation of an SOVC with "Absentee" (cumulative) counter
group and the proposed "Separate Under Fives" option selected.
Also attached is a representation of the "Under Fives" line as it should
appear on the report.
Cathi
Smothers
Global Election Systems
423.842.0937
423.505.7507