RE: Spyrus units going down -March 2002

["Ken Clark" <ken@dieboldes.com>]

You can only keep 25 contingency cards around for the cost of another Spyrus.  We can’t have the units dying, period.

 

Ken

 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-bugtrack@dieboldes.com [mailto:owner-bugtrack@dieboldes.com] On Behalf Of Greg Forsythe
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 4:17 PM
To: bugtrack@dieboldes.com
Subject: Re: Spyrus units going down -March 2002

 

Perhaps a solution is to keep live voter cards for each ballot available in every voting location as a contingency should all Spyrus units die in one voting location.  A less costly solution at $2.00 per card.

 

Greg

----- Original Message -----

From: Tari Runyan

To: Bugs

Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 6:20 PM

Subject: Spyrus units going down -March 2002

 

we sent 40 spyrus units out to the polls for the March Primary and there were 20 for the polls and 20 backups - of those 7 failed -  died- had squares going across them - we changed out batteries after they were replaced and it didn't help

 

One thing that we noticed was they were in the same geographic area - (spooky) and they were  very close in sequence numbers 196-200 and a couple others.

 

I do not think that we should have to rely on more than one backup for each location and if that is the case we need to rethink our using the Spyrus at all -

 

The fact that there were 8 keys being used may have something to do with it - but I do not know - and if it does why didn't all of them fail

 

We need to determine the cause and the solution- I have returned the questionable units to TX and hope to have some resolution -

 

We could have coded them in the field had the poll book been accessible - but it was not.

Thanks

Tari