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DRE protected counter including election resets
- To: <rcr@dieboldes.com>
- Subject: DRE protected counter including election resets
- From: "Ken Clark" <ken@dieboldes.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 14:51:31 -0800
- Importance: Normal
Here is a good one
for you...
The ballot station
currently has a "protected counter" that is the total number of ballots ever
cast on the unit. It advances by one each time a ballot is
cast.
Louisiana wants the
protected counter to also advance, by one, each time the unit is
"re-set". What re-set means appears up for interpretation, but for our
purposes we'll use set-for-election. As an illustration, say
the protected counter is 100 at the beginning of election day.
150 votes are cast during that election. At the end of the election,
the protected counter will be 250. Months go by and they have another
election. At the start of the election, they want the protected
counter to read 251 before any votes are cast. Strange but
true.
The implementation
is another one-liner: just bump the protected counter at
set-for-election. The catch of course is that not everyone will want the
system to work this way. I'll cut a one-off release for the Louisiana
certification. If we end up getting the bid, we can talk about a setup
option to turn it on and off.
Ken