Absentee ballots
An election is defined with polling and absentee
voter groups as well as a polling and cumulative absentee counter groups, set to
the polling and absentee voter groups, respectively. A jurisdiction-wide
candidacy is defined to the <N.P.> voter group and a jurisdiction-wide
precinct committee race to the polling voter group. One polling report
precinct is defined, one cumulative absentee precinct defined and linked to the
polling precinct, a polling vote center and a cumulative absentee vote center,
linked to the absentee precinct. Ballot generation gives the polling vote
center a ballot style with both races and the absentee vote center the ballot
style with the candidacy only. However, both ballot styles erroneously
appear under the absentee precinct.
Rotation
An election is defined with a rotation district category with two child districts. Attempting to
delete one of the child districts results in the display of 'Too few
parameters. Expected 2'.
An election is defined with two voter groups,
polling and absentee, both set to rotate ballots. Polling and cumulative
absentee counter groups are defined and set to the polling and absentee counter
groups, respectively. Two polling report precincts are defined and
associated with a cumulative absentee precinct. A polling vote center
corresponds to the two polling precincts and a cumulative absentee vote center
to the absentee precinct. A jurisdiction wide candidacy is defined with
two precinct-rotated candidates for the voter group <N.P.> and a
jurisdiction-wide precinct committee race is defined with two precinct-rotated
candidates for the polling voter group. Ballot generation and rotation
correctly assigns two rotated ballots containing the candidacy and precinct
committee race to the polling vote center and two rotated ballots containing the
candidacy only to the absentee vote center.
Setting the absentee voter group to not rotate
ballots in the Voter Group Editor and re-generating ballot rotations incorrectly
creates two rotated ballots within the absentee ballot style and three rotated
ballots within the polling ballot style, one with the first candidate in the
first position in both races, one with the first candidate in the second
position in both races and one erroneously with the first candidate in the first
position in the first race and the first candidate in the second position in the
second race. Looking up ballots under the vote centers, the correct
rotated ballots appear with the polling vote center and the erroneously rotated
'polling' ballot appears with under absentee vote center.
Endorsement races
An election is defined with one report precinct,
three partisan voter groups (Republican, Democrat, Libertarian) as well as a
polling voter group. Three jurisdiction-wide races are
defined:
- a endorsement race with the three partisan voter groups
- a non-endorsed question
- an endorsed precinct committee race linked to the polling voter group, with three endorsed candidates
Two
ballot styles are created: one correctly contains the endorsement race,
the question and the precinct committee race, and the other contains the
endorsement race and question. Should GEMS be able to distinguish that
question responses are non-endorseable?
Consider the same election, without the
question. Two ballot styles are created, one correctly containing the
endorsement and precinct committee races, the other one erroneously containing
the endorsement race only.
Preference races
An election is created with two report precincts,
one in district 10 and the other in district 20, as well as three partisan voter
groups. Three races are defined:
- a jurisdiction wide preference race with three voter groups
- a non-endorsed, non-preferential candidacy held in district 10 with three non-endorsed candidates
- a jurisdiction-wide, non-endorsed, non-preferential question
Two ballot styles are created, one with the
preference race and question and the other with the preference race, candidacy
and question. Neither the candidacy or question are partisan, and yet the
preference race occurs on both ballot styles.
Voter registration
Is it possible to track voter registration amounts
by both party and slate in a primary election?
Vote Centers with Cards by ID
report
An election is created with a polling voter group
and a cumulative absentee counter group. A polling as well as a cumulative
absentee report precinct are created with corresponding vote centers. A
jurisdiction-wide candidacy is defined for the <N.P.> voter group and a
precinct committee race to the polling voter group.
The Vote Centers with Cards by ID report only lists
the polling vote center and not the cumulative vote center, even though it
contains distinct ballots. The same report refers to the base precinct as
precinct portion, which is inconsistent - we should use one term or the other,
but not both.
Occasionally when attempting to preview this report
(but not always) the following message is displayed: 'Failed to start
printing or viewing report VoteCentersWithCardsbyID.rpt
Error(997)'
Card Quantity by Vote Center ID with Party
report
The Card Quantity by Vote Center ID
with Party displays the report precinct name in the Report Precinct/Base
Precinct Label instead of showing the base precinct label.
Report precinct/voter group detail
amounts do not round correctly:
An election is defined with four
report precincts, a cumulative absentee counter group and a jurisdiction-wide
race with two candidates using precinct-based rotation, set to the <N.P.>
voter group. Both rotation ballots are valid in the absentee vote
center. In the Card Quantity by Vote Center ID report, the polling report
precinct is listed only for the first rotation in the absentee precinct for each
card (see below).
Language
What means are currently available for proofing
multi-language ballots? Defining additional languages that are integrated
into race and candidate definitions do not give rise to any separate cards or
other documents that can be reviewed before being sent to the printer (other
than Ghostview?).
Other
Double clicking on any expand/contract button, in
either mode, for race, header, ballot style, activates the last editor
activated.
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