We have 4 counties
in Maryland:
Dorchester 100
AVTS
Alegheny
330 AVTS
Prince George 2500
AVTS
Montgomery
2800 AVTS
IMPETUS:
Upcoming Maryland
elections:
April
2 City of Bowie in Prince George
County
40 AVTS 8
pcts
using modem for upload
April
26 High/Middle School election in Montgomery
County
340 AVTS 54
locations no modem
Sept
10
Primary
November 5 General
Don
Vopalensky, who is in Maryland and in direct contact with all the counties,
says that as it stands the two small counties, Dorchester and Alegheny, will not use
modems for the rest of the year and
the larger two are undecided. This brings us to
the question of uploading election results election night in a timely manner,
with the strong possibility that at least one of the larger counties as well as
the two smaller counties will not use modem.
As always the expectation is an almost immediate
release of election results from the time the polls close,but without modem we would have to physically
gather all the pcmcia cards from each vote center location, take them to a
central or regional site and upload each card via a limited number of AVTS units
set up to be accumulators that are networked together. At (2) minutes per card (2500 in Prince George) it will
take about 83 hours to complete the upload. Of course this is calculated on
using just one AVTS for upload but even using 20 upload machines your looking at
4 hours given no complications and that the 2 minutes per card
isn't too low an estimate.
RCR:
Using the Accumulator in AVTS, allow a transfer method
of storing results onto a pcmcia card.
The pcmcia
card that is to be used has been created and ( uniquely
encoded) in GEMS as part of a vote center.
Upload into GEMS via
networked AVTS or stand alone PCMCIA Card Reader attached to GEMS
host.
JUSTIFICATION:
Upload results as
quickly as possible.