----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 9:32
AM
Subject: RE: AVTS 4.0.7 - Heading Font
size changes on different ballots
This
creates an additional line of test and the final race in the column has the
Header Font size decreased in order to fit. The point of contention was that
this should not automatically be made smaller, but should have forced this
race to appear in the next column.
This is by design -- we even do it with paper ballots.
The idea is that its better to squish a race a little than to waste all the
ballot real estate in the rest of the column. Back in the VTS days
it used to be SOP to print out a ballot and then play with the font settings
to fit races into columns.
If its a "point of
contention", I we could make the amount we are willing to cram
configurable. That would probably be a good idea just in principle -- I
have never been comfortable with the hard-coded cram factor even with
paper. Some folks will tolerate more cramming than
others(1).
That said, what is the
basis for the contention? I have seen statutes that say that candidate
fonts need to be the same size within a race so that candidates are given
a fair shake, but never that races have to be the same font. If this is
a statute in Florida, please quote the section so we have it on
record.
Ken
(1) Florida will want
it set low, Five-Point-Frank will want it set
high