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New topic. VTS, as I understand it, allows printers to create
ballot artwork using templates and then enter the candidate oval positions
manually. Correct and expand on this if I have missed any
nuances.
GEMS doesn't have any facilities for this currently. The two
obvious questions are
The place where this has come up is Connecticut and New York, which seem
to have a very curious way of laying out ballots. They lay out the races
in a grid, with parties labeled down the left column, races labeled across the
top, and candidates in the grid positions. This was possible to do in VTS
manually but is not possible in GEMS. Worse, I really have no idea how
such a layout can be automated (but I digress). They also throw in
referendum questions that don't follow the grid rule in the example I am looking
at.
Anyway, let me open the floor on this one since I don't really know the
details of how this has worked in the past with VTS. I have a feeling that
this is not going to interact well with GEMS' demand based (ie not batch
oriented) ballot artwork generation.
Ken
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