I am posting this to Support since my suggestion does not involve an
rcr.
Perhaps the overly long zero tape can be bypassed procedurally via a
form (not generated by the AVTS unit) certifying the system has been cleared and
set for election, and attesting to the fact that the “setting for election”
process has been tested by outside laboratories and does in fact zero all of
the counters and blah blah blah. If they adopt this type of process, the Zero
report could be omitted. The zero state of the machine could be verified by
certifying that the public counter is set at zero.
Of course I understand this will not fly, but I suggest it anyway. It is
a procedural approach to the problem instead of trying to rework the coding at
the last minute.
Mark
Earley
850 422-2100 - office/fax
850 322-3226 - cell
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Message-----
From: owner-rcr@gesn.com
[mailto:owner-rcr@gesn.com]On Behalf Of Ken
Clark
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002
12:47 PM
To: rcr@dieboldes.com
Subject: RE: New Zero Report for
Excessively Long Primary Ballots
AVTS does not use the
AccuBasic .abo files. This was
implemented by Denise for the Ballot Station 4.4 release, but I don’t think
Johnson will be willing to upgrade to 4.4 this year let alone August.
We’d be open to alternate
creative solutions, but I can’t off the cuff think of any that wouldn’t involve
a BS software upgrade.
Ken
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From: owner-rcr@gesn.com
[mailto:owner-rcr@gesn.com] On Behalf Of Lesley
Thompson
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002
8:44 PM
To: rcr@gesn.com
Subject: New Zero Report for
Excessively Long Primary Ballots
Request an RCR to change ABO file ( this controls the format and style of
all AVTS and AVOS printer Reports) to print a new Zero Report that simply
states that all races for all candidates for all parties are Zero as an
affidavit. And that the judge’s signature verifies that the on screen
counter is indeed Zero.
Situation: For their Aug6 Primary Election,
JoCoKs will have 3 advance voting locations with a total of 120 AVTS units
deployed for early voting in person. In a test run it was discovered that
to print the zero report from the advance voting PCMCIA election card before
the polls open on the first day of voting will require at the minimum 40
minutes for each report and almost a roll of paper. (Primary election has
three parties, two of which have the precinct committee people.)
Also, on election day, the final report from each AVTS advanced
voting unit is typically printed centrally, and we are looking at the same
requirements.
DATE: 7/17/02
JOHNSON COUNTY, KANSAS
AVTS: WinCE 2.1.2/BS 4.1.11
AVOS: CC 2.00g
GEMS: 1.17.22
Lesley Koop Thompson
Customer Service Project Manager
Diebold Election Systems, Inc.
lesley@dieboldes.com OR
lesleytdiebold@earthlink.net
512-413-7618