----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 5:38
PM
Subject: Resetting regional results does
not flush pending jobs (was RE: Extra results for Johnson County, KS mock
election)
I am pretty sure I
got this figured...
Look at the
Central Count Status Report by Deck report on the main database, you will
see 6 decks including decks 0 and 3 which were committed on December 31
2001.
Look at the
PServerLog.log file for the main database and you will see all 6 decks
transferred at the same time. The timestamp isn't human readable but
trust me they're are all Jan 3. Look at PosterLog.log January 07,2002
09.27.20 PM Backup, you'll see the same six decks get posted to the database
at about the same time.
On the advanced
database, look at the CC status report. There is only 4 decks there, all
created on the 3rd.
Now look at at the
advanced database PClientLog.log and note how helpful it is. (Its empty
for those playing along). Had it contained useful information, it would
show the 6 decks being sent that were received on the main database side all
on Jan 3rd.
Here is what
happened: 2 decks were run on the advanced computer on Dec 31, but they
were never uploaded to the host. Resetting on the advanced database
clears its local counters, but does not clear the pending queue. There
they sat in the queue until the 3rd. On the 3rd, 4 more decks were
run, and queued with the other 2. Finally the all 6 were transferred,
and confusion ensued.
Here is what we
need to do at minimum to fix this:
(1)
Fix GEMS
so that the regional client's pending queue is cleared with a reset
election.
(2) Make the
regional server/client logs better than useless.
We'll do this for
GEMS 1.17.22.
Finally, ensure
that part of their procedures are to (a) print zero reports on both the
advanced and main databases before any ballots are counted and (b) check the
regional results dialog on the advanced machine and check that there are no
unexpected jobs pending before counting starts.
Ken
Here
are the databases, both the Regional, and the Main, along with the Poster
Log Files. If you take a look
at the Advance Paper results in the Regional database, those are the correct
numbers. However, the Advance
Paper results in the Main database are 44 votes more. From looking at the GEMS Audit Log
in the Main database, it appears that they did do a Reset Election, which
should have put all totals back to 0.
Unfortunately, we did not print out a zero report before loading up
the Regional database results to the Main database. From the PServerLog in the Main
database, it looks like that their were other decks committed. Any
help???
Jeff
-----Original
Message-----
From: Jeff
Hintz [mailto:jhglobal@earthlink.net]
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 5:32
PM
To: Support
Team
Subject: Extra results
for Johnson County, KS mock election
Johnson
County, KS had a mock election last week and we encountered extra results
when we did the final reporting.
However, I have not been able to reproduce it, nor track it
down.
This
is what they did. They have 2
Servers that are both networked together. 1 is used for the Election Day
Voting-(AVTS), and the other 1 is used for Paper Absentee-(AVOS-Central
Count) and Early Voting-(AVTS).
However, they have set up the Paper Absentee & Early Voting as a
Region, then when they are done counting the Paper Absentee & Early
Voting, they transfer those totals from that Region to the Main
database. We scanned the Paper
Absentee and loaded up the Early Voting totals on the Server set up as the
Region. We then transferred
those results over to the Main Server with the Main database on it. When we printed out results, we had
extra results within the Paper Absentee counter group. However, on the other Server set up
as the Region, the Paper Absentee results were correct. We did not print out a Zero Report
from the Main Server with the Main database before we transferred the
results from the Region, however within the Audit Log, it does show that the
Main database was Reset, which should have set all totals to
Zero.
Does
anyone have any idea what might have happened
here???
I
can get both the Main & Region database from them, along with any logs
if needed.
Jeff