----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 10:52
AM
Subject: RE: BS Audit Log Upload - 22
month archiving
It is also going
to increase (potentially double) the upload time for each vote
center.
I
don't see it as part of the election night upload, but rather as an upload of
the audit during the canvass period where you have 10-29 days to get the
"official" results.
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. Agreed.
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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