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There was a question regarding how often the pollworker would
be dealing with provisional voters in a precinct based election. I asked
Elaine, Brad, and Charles at Alameda yesterday. The consensus was that now
they would see the highest number being about 60 in some Berekeley precincts for
a single polling location. On average in all precincts, about 8-12.
They could see some Berekeley precincts getting higher numbers as we move
forward. That would equal 4.6 voters provisional voters per hour in the
highest precinct.
They are OK with indexing by number. But the
indexing needs to be thought out. If we pre-printed numbers on an
affidavit, then how would the ballot station automatically add the correct
affidavit prefixes so that the poll worker would only have to type in the last 2
digits? Would we have to pre-print affidavits for each precinct specific
to each election?? I don't think that works. I'm back to barcoding
or something.
I am still hoping that we could manufacture a device that
could read a bar code on the application and burn the card vs. trying to have
the pollworker use the smaller Spyrus keypad button. I guess
we'll know more after Texas and Piedmont/Oakland regarding use of the
Spyrus.
Steve Knecht
Global Election Systems 415-893-9941 office 415-893-9951 fax 415-225-6591 cell 800-508-5710 pager |