Election Options - Recount Reporting Set drop down, causes problems uploading to accuvote os if the default reporting set is not specified regardless of whether 'set for recount' option is selected.

["Ravina Dhami" <ravina@dieboldes.com>]

GEMS 1.18.9

 

Specifying a recount of other than the default of 'All Races', from the Election Options' screen and then going back to the 'Election Options' screen and deselecting the option 'Set for Recount' causes error msgs when uploading to accuvote os.  When you deselect the 'Set for Recount' option it seems to change the 'Recount Reporting Set' drop down to 'All Races' but if you go back to the 'Election Options' screen, you notice that it still displays the reporting set you had created.  Although the 'Set for Recount' option is deselected, when you upload to accuvote o/s, you will get an error msg that says "MSG OUT OF SYNC."  Which is a result of not having 'All Races' specified in the 'Recount Reporting Set' drop down menu.

 

 

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

1.  From Setup/Reporting Sets, create a new reporting set

2.  From Setup/Elections, click on the 'Recount' tab

3.  Check off 'Set for Recount' and from the 'Recount Reporting Set' drop down, select the reporting set you created in step 1

4.  Click on 'OK'

5.  Go to Setup/Elections and click on the 'Recount' tab

6.  Uncheck 'Set for Recount.'

7.  You will notice that the 'Recount Reporting Set' drop down defaults to 'All Races'

8.  Click on 'OK'

9.  Go to Setup/Elections and click on the 'Recount' tab

 

RESULT:  You will notice that the drop down menu still displays the name of the reporting set you had selected in step 3

 

Try uploading to the accuvote os.

 

RESULT:  You will get an error msg on the o/s as well as on the the screen that says 'MSG OUT OF SYNC', which is a result of not having the default reporting set defined in the 'Election Options' screen.

 

Ravina