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It is a
point of contention with the State of Florida. The State of Florida has to have this fixed before we can
continue with the phase 2 testing.
When I spoke to Mike Lindsey this morning, he is unwilling to schedule
the next step until this issue is resolved. The Florida SOS says this is a requirement to be fixed. I would like to get back with Mike for
scheduling this afternoon. Do you
have an estimate as to when this will be ready. I believe
that everyone knows the importance of getting to the second phase of testing. Thanks Larry J. Dix Vice
President of Operations Global
Election Systems -----Original
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owner-bugtrack@dieboldes.com [mailto:owner-bugtrack@dieboldes.com]On Behalf Of Jeff Hintz 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 |