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GEMS-1-15-2
Landscape Ballots
Currently, the only text on the full printing template is at
the bottom indicating front and back with Id"s. Easily understood by the
printer in portrait mode.
My suggestion is to have TOP and BOTTOM in the
appropriate places and maybe arrows indicating "this side up".
Currently, when the text appears on the edge of the ballot in
landscape it is very easy to reverse the images and make a mistake. I
believe the printer would look at the text on the front of the ballot in
portrait mode the same way you would look at a dollar bill and mark top and
bottom and do the same to the back side, providing there was text on the back
and make sure the bottom on both sides matched and the text was not
reversed. The same as a dollar bill.
In this version the printed ballot does not match the
programmed voting positions.
The amount of white space from the question candidate and
the bottom line is different than the white space for the last race
candidate. The candidate bottom line is very (too) close to the vertical
oval.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Clark
Sent: February 11, 2000 7:15 PM
Subject: RE: Landscape Ballots - Invalid Ballot
I am going to reneg
on this. I have shown Greg's ballot around the office, and its unclear
which is the "right" way to flip it -- by long or short side. Right
now it is along the long side, just because that is the way that GEMS and
the AccuVote see it (1). It turns out to be a royal pain to rotate
the back 180, so I am going to let the current behavior stand for
now.
Ian suggested a
"turn ballot over" hand icon that points down instead of the right. That
is a good idea. I'll rotate the current image and add it to the GEMS
distribution.
Ken
(1) Don't anthromophorize
computers. They don't like that.
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