----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 7:37
AM
Subject: RE: Pollbook Function
No,
you do not have to do it 27 times. Only the number of Vote Centers that
you have defined. In the case of Piedmont, that would be 8. It
only took me about 5 minutes to load up all 28 disks.
Presently, using Spyrus cards in precincts in Alameda, the
Registrar has determined that the pollbook function is too complicated for
the pollworkers. Therefore, we are going to bring all diskettes to
central site. This means that for each polling location you have to
exit the pollbook operation, re-log in, and reload the next diskettes.
For Oakland election that means logging out of pollbook 27 times and
relogging in using Mgr card/1111 login 27 times. In Nov. election it
means doing this 400 times. In March 2002, it means 1100 times
(although I'm assuming there will be some simple way to accumulate in the
precincts by then). Can pollbook be changes so you don't need to exit
and re-log in each time a vote center changes in a polling
environment?
Steve Knecht
Global Election Systems
415-893-9941
office 415-893-9951 fax
415-225-6591
cell 800-508-5710
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