I have
the request for the statute section into the Florida SOS. I will forward to you as soon as I
receive it.
Larry
J. Dix
Vice
President of Operations
Global
Election Systems
-----Original
Message-----
From: owner-bugtrack@dieboldes.com
[mailto:owner-bugtrack@dieboldes.com]On Behalf
Of Ken Clark
Sent:
Friday, September 07, 2001 11:42 AM
To: bugtrack@dieboldes.com
Cc: Jeff Dean
Subject: RE: AVTS 4.0.7 - Heading Font
size changes on different ballots
BS
4.0.9 and 4.1.1 will no longer try to fit races into a column by changing the
font size. I still want the statute section I asked for
8/28.
Ken
-----Original
Message-----
From:
owner-bugtrack@dieboldes.com [mailto:owner-bugtrack@dieboldes.com]On Behalf Of Larry Dix
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 8:07
AM
To:
bugtrack@dieboldes.com
Cc: Jeff
Dean
Subject: RE: AVTS 4.0.7
- Heading Font size changes on different ballots
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
Message-----
From:
owner-bugtrack@dieboldes.com [mailto:owner-bugtrack@dieboldes.com]On Behalf Of Ken Clark
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 11:32
AM
To:
bugtrack@dieboldes.com
Subject:
RE: AVTS 4.0.7 - Heading Font size changes on different
ballots
From:
owner-bugtrack@dieboldes.com [mailto:owner-bugtrack@dieboldes.com]On Behalf Of Jeff Hintz
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 6:43
AM
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