----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 4:45
PM
Subject: RE: BallotStationCE-4-1-0-2
audio ballot race advancement
4 advances to the
previous candidate unless you are on the first candidate of the race,
in which case it advances to the first candidate in the previous
race. It doesn't act quite the same as a prev race
key.
Note that the
current accounting keypad has the 8 at top, 2 at bottom. This as got to
change but lets keep that convention for discussion purposes to
avoid confusion. You said 8-uparrow for next race, while I assume you
meant previous race.
Adding 2/8
next/prev race keys is pretty trivial. It does potentially mean a longer
list of instructions every candidate though: 5 keys to explain instead
of 3. This is why the idea was rejected in the initial design. Is
everyone comfortable with increasing the instruction list? I am not
entirely. Perhaps this is a reasonable thing to make an
option.
After stepping forward or backward in the candidate list or
selecting a candidate, the existing options are repeated. If no action
is taken by the voter, the race text is read out again, followed by the same
options. How about adding the race forward/back instructions to the
instruction list only if the voter pauses long enough for the race
instructions to be re-read, once a candidate is chosen, or possibly only
when the number to vote for has been reached.
Nel
If we do add 8/2, then the current behavior of 4 when at the top of a
race is redundant with the previous race key. If there is a previous
race key, then previous candidate should advance to the last candidate of the
previous race, not the first.
As a final
note, keep in mind that voting is largely a linear process.
The only reason a voter would want to be skipping ahead though races is
if they go (way) back to a previous race and then want to move forward.
Right now moving forward through voted races is a bit tedious because
even the candidates that cannot be voted nor canceled are played. An
option to skip those candidates automatically is in the works, and may render
this whole discussion moot.
Ken
Deborah pointed out that the 4 key already
functions as I was suggesting the 2 key should do. So my suggestion is
simply to allow the voter to use the 8-uparrow key as a way to skip to the
next race.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: BallotStationCE-4-1-0-2 audio ballot race
advancement
Agreed. In only a very cursory look,
if you voted for the 3rd of 6 candidates, we need to be able to move to the
next race. We need to be able to skip race altogether if voter wants (
I knows this will vary between states, based on state laws). Some states will require you to hear all
candidates, other will not.
In the latter case, you've got to be able to
move to next race somehow (wouldn't an 8 -uparrow or 2-downarrow key
function in the same way the 4 and 6 key do now, and while adding keys, at
least it works in the same fashion as the movement within a
race?
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001
2:32 PM
Subject: BallotStationCE-4-1-0-2
audio ballot race advancement
The audio
ballot should give the voter the opportunity to immediately advance to the
next race, without having to advance to the last candidate in a race
first. Currently, it is only possible to advance to the next race
after having advanced to the last candidate in a race in the audio
ballot.
Nel