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Update to
the GA request for separate Absentee Precinct by Precinct counting. The conference this week in Atlanta
mandated that all GA accounts counts absentee ballots as one precinct. The request by Cobb and Gwinnett on
this issue are no longer relevant. John -----Original
Message----- From: Ken Clark
[mailto:ken@dieboldes.com] Gwinnett
County, Georgia would like to have seperate headers on their absentees although
their races are identical. This should be possible with voter group
specific headers, but isn't working. Okay, I
have reviewed this and it appears that GEMS unfortunately does not handle (and
has not ever)the above case. Significant headers can be used to put a
header on only the democratic ballot, but they cannot be
used to force a democratic ballot when there are no
democratic races. For
1.11 at least, the best I can offer is a work around. Create a race with
no candidates as a psudo significant header. This race will differentiate
the ballots for GEMS. This race can be the "Official Ballot"
header, or something more inert like a seperator with actual significant
headers in turn attached to it. What
exactly is the difference between the absentee and polling header in Gwinnett
anyway? If it is something simple like displaying "Official"
instead of "Absentee", we might be able to handle this with an
@vgroup macro in the same spirit as the @precinct macro, without a major GEMS
upgrade. Ken |