Jurisdiction: San Juan, Puerto
Date
Requested: April
2, 2002
Date
Required: May 1, 2002, Actual
Election date is June
30th, but need to test and have ready by May 20th.
Requested on behalf of Puerto
Rico. In addition to
having the AccuVote sort out Blanks and Write-In's, they would like to have
the AccuVote sort out Over Votes, and
Challenged Voters. They do not want to have the AccuVote rejecting
any ballots, because they do not want to jeopardize the secrecy of the ballot
and voter. All Blanks, Over Votes, Challenged, and Write-In's need to be
sorted, and then the Election Commission will look at all these ballots and
manually adjust the vote
totals.
Ability to
Sort out;
1. Blanks = En Blanco
2. Over votes = No Adjudicado
3. Challenged * = No Adjudicado
4. Write In = Otros
*Note: The function of
Challenged was incorporated for PR on firmware 194X in the past where if the
oval for challenged is marked in the back of the ballot what ever was marked in
the front race was not read and the ballot was sorted
out.
Thanks,
Jeff Hintz
Diebold
Election Systems
405 N. 115th Street
Omaha, NE 68154
(402)
697-7171 office
(402) 697-7166 fax
(402) 871-3346
cell