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I can confirm that a GEMS database with write-in
option set to override counts a "vote for one" race as being an
overvote if both a named candidate and the write-in space are marked.
Edgecombe County, NC observed the same thing and brought it to my
attention. As my previous message stated, both Edgecombe and I were of the
opinion that setting the write-in option to override in the aforementioned
example should have given the vote to the write-in space.
Tyler
Sorry but I was wrong in
saying that the Accu-Vote would reject an overvote before checking write-in
overrides. Upon checking the code, all write-in override options are
applied before the overvote condition is checked as per requirements.
This discussion was started by Nel's bug report:
- A candidate and write-in selected in
a vote for one race are returned as overvoted, even though
the override write-in rule should effect the selection of
the write-in only.
- Candidacies marked with a
candidate as well as a write-in are being tallied as overvoted even
though they should be tallied as write-in using the override
write-in rule.
which I believe was
in error. Does anyone have confirmation of this behavior?
Guy
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