GEMS 1.10.2

GEMS 1.10.2 is ready. Password is "rawhvj5igxw42". New in this release is central count performance improvements, support for rich voter group text, and support for AccuVote-TS 3.5.1. If none of these features thrill you, you might opt to stick with 1.9.6 or 1.7.5, which have a few more miles on them.

The central count work is actually a cumulation of work started in January. In preliminary testing in King County, the time required to fetch the oval positions for a new card has dropped from a worst case of more than a minute (the wait lock error) to less than half a second. We wish Mike and Sophia good luck in the CC test this week.

Here's the readme:

1.10.2 Jun-8-99

Voter group editor now uses endorsement text defaults when generating the rich text.
Change download protocol for TS 3.5.1.

1.10.1 Jun-3-99

Automatically disable Race Editor vote-for field and reset it to 1 for straight party races.
Disallow running another instance of GEMS if an election with same identifier is already opened.
Added Ballot Layout options under AccuVote-TS setting box.
Added language and RTF support to Voter Group labels.
The Print Artwork dialog prints "proof only" as well as date and time for proof ballots.
The id field in the candidate list control of the Race Editor now displays correctly.
Added RaceRotationWithCards report.
Central count performance improvements.
Fix bug in central count where cards with the wrong election id were not being rejected. Support CC 2.00h protocol.
Added support for multi-line election title in the pre-election reports.

Ken

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