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From: owner-support@gesn.com
[mailto:owner-support@gesn.com] On Behalf Of Steve
Knecht If languages will take different
spacing, will it be up to a human sitting at a terminal to match the spacing
from ballot to ballot? Or will
there be some automated help from GEMS in showing
which races are not lining up. I guess I'm making an assumption that oval
positions across ballots will be required to be the same. Maybe I'm wrong here. For this iteration at least, the ballot positions will
match. That means that we can
re-use the card numbers. The AccuVote-OS is none the wiser that there are multiple
languages. GEMS will lay out the ballot for the default language. That is, English. Other languages will be laid out in the
same space as the English. If the
other languages do not fit, they will be squished. This might mean using a slightly larger
font for English, or adding some extra hard returns at the end of long referenda
if the squishing gets out of hand. Note
that this will just be a per-race exercise, not a per-ballot exercise. If this proves too cumbersome I can
probably write some code to lay out for the worst-case language rather than the
default language, but my best guess is that it won’t come to that. If they do need to be the same, and
there are thousands of styles, like in King or GEMS? Perhaps GEMS could play
motivational phrases on the speakers from time to time. From: owner-support@gesn.com
[mailto:owner-support@gesn.com] On Behalf Of Steve
Knecht The language name will be in the file name. Probably English-10-10F.pdf,
or somesuch. Ken |