I trust you mean
"BLANK CARD FEED" and not "REJECT_BLANKCARD". The BLANK CARD FEED
message is not generated by GEMS. It happens when the AccuVote gets no
timing marks at all from the reader. Feed a completely blank peice of
paper into the AccuVote and you'll see the message every time.
It has been a while,
but I saw this myself in Pima and brought it up back in Nov 98. I would be
surprised if it doesn't happen in King all the time, but then I wouldn't know
much about that. Its the reader or the firmware, and my bet for a long
time has been on the former. My pet theory is that when it happens in
precinct count we never hear about it since a poll worker would just shrug
and refeed, and it always seems to take the second time.
Ken
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