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These are the items from Anchorage's letter
(text of the letter in red) which need to be
addressed:
Definitions
Non-service area:
Means…..nothing in particular. I created this district in
the database in order to generate some different ballot styles. It is
meant to be some mythical district which is completely outside
of the service area.
Mechanics
Vote tallies for the shadow race or proposition are jurisdiction
wide/areawide and include the subset tally of votes in the shadowed race. No. Vote
tallies for the shadow race are for the jurisdiction wide/areawide district only
and contain no subsets. The shadowed race is the "subset", if
you will. It shows the vote tallies for the service area
only.
If we've interpreted the definitions correctly and made the right
assumptions, it appears you've accommodated the "vote once count twice
concept". They have,
and we have, and thank you, Ken.
Is there a limit to the
number of shadow/shadowed races or propositions that can be assigned within a
precinct? No.
What is the purpose of the non-service area category? See
above.
Database #1 created two
ballot styles until "printed with precinct ID's" which then doubled
the number of ballot styles generated. Is that a manual process or is it
controlled through the assignment of base precinct identifiers? It is controlled by GEMS in the Print Artwork
dialogue box. There is a check box which allows ballots to be printed
"By
Precincts".
When Vickie and I were in
McKinney for training last January, we identified all base precincts for the 114
precincts in Anchorage. I think Tyler kept a disk and gave us a copy too. Would
it be possible to run that set up with the enhanced software and send us a copy
of the resulting base precinct report? If the report can be run, will it show
which service area propositions would be shadowed within the
precincts? The base precincts won't
change because we can now create shadow/shadowed races. The creation of
this functionality has no effect upon the district/precinct structure.
"Service area propositions" are, by definition, races.
Anchorage's reporting requirements are fulfilled by the enhanced
software.
Every other item listed on their letter is
correct as
stated.
Tyler
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