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City of Saskatoon successfully used GEMS-1-11-1 for a 42
Accu-Vote modem upload election in May. Another election in October with
GEMS-1-11-1 uploaded only the number of Polls with no vote data.
Fortunately McKinney support identified 1-11-1 as a faulty version and a Readme
was posted in July. I reset and closed the database, downloaded
GEMS-1-11-5 from the FTP site and had the election staff remove the Memory Cards
from the Accu-Votes that had been returned to a depot a couple of blocks
from election central and uploaded in direct mode. This cost one
hour.
I had no excuse. I should have known this version was
not stable.
I would like to suggest that a list is made of the versions
that are stable (certified, recommended) for election purposes, or identify in a
list those which should not be used so that this unfortunate experience is not
repeated.
Greg Forsythe Global Election Systems, Inc 24 Hirondelle Place, Ontario M3A 1V8 Phone (416) 446-1383 Fax (416) 446-1425 gfglobal@earthlink.net www.gesn.com |