I understand. The
counties would accept whereever we decide to place the serial number. Printing
the serial number next to the ballot/precinct label would be
acceptable. See comment above.
According
to Ian, the font size would have to be the same. So long as it is
visible, I think where it would be the easiest to implement would be
acceptable.
.
5. When
does this have to be implemented by?
The sooner
the better. I know this will take some time. I just need to let the
customer (Bexar County and Travis County) know we can do it, and will be
able to deliverif they choose us as a vendor. I can tell El Paso county
that we are working on it.
Thanks.
Rodney
Ballot on
Demand is an extremely troublesome product.
We
have never been able to make this work successfully. There are equipment
issues (remember when HP said they would build one for us and then stopped
supporting the printer?), personnel issues, software issues, AND we don't make
enough money on this to sneeze at.
Juan, Rodney- I've had this same issue with
accounts before, most recently in Johnson County, KS. They had printed
60,000+ BOD ballots from their CMIS system and insisted we had to have
BOD. We explained that the TS, coupled with VC Programmer, would solve
their walk-in issues. Then we delivered some of our Spectrum produced
ballots. They loved the value added features of multiple colors,
customization in headers, pre-printed test decks, precinct ids, etc at no
additional cost. Moreover, we can deliver their postal ballots folded
and already sorted in boxes by precinct and/or ballot style. The County
argument is that they will run out of ballots. Our response is to point
out that they will have all the value added features and a true inventory of
their ballots. Additionally, we should point out that we can assist them
with some inventory practices, and, because we print digitally, no plates and
no minimum order, we can turn around their possible re-orders in record
time. For example, if they take inventory by say 2:00pm central time, we
can have our west coast facilities possibly print that afternoon.
Although we can't always promise delivery the next am, we can certainly
promise a 36 hour turn around.
If
we are so far along in the cycle that it is impossible to sell this solution
right now, my suggestion is to talk through the BOD and whet their appetite
for this digital solution. Bexar is visiting Johnson County with Barry
on Thursday. I think Barry can prime Connie Schmidt to help with this
solution.
Let's please think this through before we throw
resources at a BOD solution.
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From: owner-rcr@dieboldes.com
[mailto:owner-rcr@dieboldes.com]On Behalf Of Talbot Iredale
Sent:
Monday, January 28, 2002 5:35 PM
To: rcr@dieboldes.com
Subject:
Re: serial numbers on ballots