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Re: Straight Party vs Preference Races (was: GEMS programming question)



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From: Gail Fenumiai [mailto:Gail_Fenumiai@gov.state.ak.us]
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 1:23 PM
To: John McLaurin
Subject: Re: FW: Straight Party vs Preference Races (was: GEMS programming question)

Okay, now I am thoroughly confused.  I may have used the wrong language in my initial message.  Did Guy get my original message?  What is being proposed is that ALL candidates, regardless of party affiliation appear on the same ballot.  A voter must make the choice to vote for candidates in all races from the same political party.  Will GEMS be able to reject a ballot (or not count for a race) if a voter starts voting for democratic candidates and then chooses a libertarian candidate?  Sorry to have confused everyone...Thanks again. 


  Please advise your customer that GEMS does not handle ballots, the Accu-Votes (in their various forms) do.  And it really helps to specify as exactly as possible which type and release of AV you're talking about.

  In response to the question, the AV-OS-PC (assuming that this is what we're talking about) will reject cross voted open primary ballots if the Accu-Vote reject flag (called "Over Voted Crossover Races" in GEMS I believe) is set.  Otherwise the partisan races on a cross voted ballot would not be counted.

  Nel has proposed using a party preference race but if that race was voted, then the AV-OS-PC would not reject cross voted ballots because in that case it would not even look at races of other parties.

  Questions?

        Guy