Another oldie but
a goodie. Everything in that post still bothers me two years
later. But the last paragraph also stands, and this is the feedback
that was requested I guess.
Couple of additional
comments. This is going to very seriously bloat the GEMS database.
Say you have 3000 machines, and each machine's log file is only 50k. That
is 150 megabytes. Don't mail that one to the bugtrack list.
It is also
going to increase (potentially double) the upload time for each vote
center.
As I said in the
previous post, this isn't technically that hard to do. It isn't a trivial
amount of work either though. We'll need a new upload protocol, a new
table in GEMS, and a new GEMS dialog to view/print the logs. That means
GEMS 1.19 earliest.
Ken
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Background:
Presently there are two audit log views in the ballot
station software (standard and accumulator). Federal law requires
ballots to be kept for 22 months for state/federal elections. We upload
to GEMS each ballot, and I'm assuming we are able to back these images up as
part of the GEMS backup process in some way. (Is this true?) However, we
need to back up the audit logs as well, vs. printing out each audit log after
the election on an AccuVote-TS.
Request:
Provide an "audit log" upload process for the PCMCIA card
which would look at the machine ID and automatically create a filename for the
adt file by machine. These files could then be backed up, along with the
GEMS backup, and stored for 22 months. This would not be part of the
election night upload, but would be part of the canvass process to meet the 22
month law.
Steve Knecht
Global Election Systems
415-893-9941
office 415-893-9951 fax
415-225-6591
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