Accu-Vote Beta Release 1.95d

[Guy Lancaster <glanca@gesn.com>]

  For those involved in the Minnesota elections, the latest 1.95 beta
release is available for evaluation from  Ian 
at the McKinney office.  The release notes for the latest 1.95 changes
are attached.  Please order your copies and check them out ASAP so
that we can freeze further changes and make a general release in time for
the upcoming elections.

  For those not involved in the Minnesota election, we will be incorporating these features in a merged Accu-Vote/Accu-Touch release scheduled for this spring.  1.95 is considered an interrim release to meet Minnesota requirements now but will be discontinued once the version 2 Precinct Count firmware is released.

  If you have voting requirements that are not currently supported, you should ensure that they are posted to the rcr@ mailing list.  Please post one requirement per message and ensure that the subject line gives a clear title that we can use to track the project.  Fixes to existing features should of course be posted to the support@ list.

  And let's have a great year.

                      Guy
 

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Guy Lancaster <glanca@gesn.com>
Global Election Systems Inc., Victoria, B.C., Canada
Phone: (250)995-8627
 

Title: Accu-Vote Beta Release 1.95d

RELEASE NOTES
Accu-Vote 2000 - Beta Release 1.95d
Revised February 9, 1999

Purpose

To meet requirements of the state of Minnesota which include reporting candidates in the order that they appear on the ballot (the rotated order) and printing the voting center and precinct names on the results tapes.  This latest 1.95 release also incorporates the fixes made to the the 1.94 releases.  Once this release is accepted, it will be re-issued as a general release.

Compatibility

The 1.95d release of the Accu-Vote firmware is based on the 1.95c release. The precinct count upload protocol remains compatible with all 1.9x VTS versions. The precinct count download protocol and the memory cards are NOT compatible with previous 1.95 releases and require an upcoming release of GEMS and new Accu-Basic (abo) files.

Warning

This is a limited Beta release for the purposes of testing and certification and is subject to further change before being released for general use.

Precinct Counter (PC) Release

• Up to 48 characters (2 lines) of the voting center name is now downloaded along with the poll center ID.  It can be accessed in Accu-Basic reports as VOTECTR.NAME as is done in the latest 195anoka.abo.
• When printing candidates in ballot order (%USEBALLOTORDER set to 1 in Accu-Basic), the Accu-Vote no longer sorts candidates according to their position on the ballot so that the order may be set by GEMS.  This fixes problems with candidate order for multi-column races and landscape ballots.

• Fix the problem whereby some units would occasionally reject a ballot and then lock up with the motor running in reverse.
• Fix problem whereby a ballot with a race having only write-in candidates would report "TCAND OVERFLOW".
• For single ballot primary ballots (primary election ballots with races from different parties), if the ballot is cross voted (i.e. races for different parties are voted), the Accu-Vote will no longer check for blank voted partisan races.
• If every race on a ballot is overvoted, the Accu-Vote will no longer reject the ballot as being unmarked.
• Memory cards will no longer be marked as corrupted.  The memory card's data is checked on insertion and before each ballot is scanned and once a problem is detected, functionality will be restricted until the data again checks out correctly.  Since most reports of memory card corruption are due to poor connection (dirty contacts or foreign material blocking the contacts), the memory cards were being incorrectly marked as corrupt.
• If an upload is interrupted before a connection is established, the Accu-Vote will no longer report that the upload was successful.

Versions

(AE PC Beta 1.95d) Precinct Counter American English Beta Release 1.95d with checksums A:857D and B:57B5 dated 99-2-8.

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