Re: Report to show cards exceeding selected ballot length

[Karen Rhea <krhea@pacbell.net>]

Sorry, Ken. I didn't phrase that well - new post jitters. I am looking for a
way to determine when a style or set of contests spills over to a second
card. Fresno is trying (unsuccessfully) to stay at a 14" card. For ballot
production reasons we need to know the percentage of 14" vs. 18" cards. I
stepped through the ballot styles and came up with a number. However, this
was very time consuming and still did not get us all of the info we wanted,
i.e. report prec's. by party coming in at 18". Any suggestions re:
shortcuts?
-k-

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Clark" <kwclark71@yahoo.com>
To: <support@gesn.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: Report to show cards exceeding selected ballot length


> Not as such.
>
> If you have a race that is too big to lay out in a
> column of its own, then the whole ballot currently
> fails to lay out.  I think one/some of the ballot
> reports will show which are laid out and which are
> not, but its not to my knowledge ever worth actually
> printing the report for this purpose. Its usually
> (read, always) pretty obvious which race is causing
> grief.  In the ballot list view you can click on the
> status field to sort out those that failed to lay out,
> and then look at the list of races on those ballots.
>
> I would like it if paper layout acted like AVTS layout
> and split the race text into the next column if it
> doesn't fit.  This was the original GEMS design.  In
> the real world no one seems to actually want that
> however, and would change the number of columns to
> make it fit anyway, so it has never happened.
>
> Ken
>
>
> --- Karen Rhea <krhea@pacbell.net> wrote:
> > Is there an existing GEMS report which lists styles
> > where contests exceed the front/back of the selected
> > card length?
> > -karen-
> >
>
>
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