Needed for Testing in August 2001 for Alameda:
(Disussed with Tab last week and Jeff
Dean several weeks ago).
Need ability in GEMS to generate Header Card artwork,
such that precinct number or name can be printed onto the Header Card by
Spectrum digital printing process.
Background: Large account (Alameda - 1117 precincts)
wants to do automated inserting using ballot styles, not precinct IDs.
This way they "pull" the ballots the night before from only approx. 125 stacks
of ballots rather than 1117 stacks. Using the automated sorting
capability on the incoming side, the ballots will be presorted by precinct,
and processed several times via central count during the 7 days prior to the
election.
The customer wants to take the presorted precinct ballots,
place a header card for that precinct in front of the cards (either
provisional or absentee) and process the op scan ballots. They will
print up 4 or 5 Header cards for each precinct for a large election, but they
do not want to have to look at a report that tells them to insert Header #299
for Precinct 205800. They want the PRECINCT No. or Name printed by
Spectrum on the Header card and to order Headers for each
election.
Steve Knecht
Global Election Systems
415-893-9941
office 415-893-9951 fax
415-225-6591
cell