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Puerto
Rico is now going with the First Choice, using the Export Results function in
GEMS.
Here
is the format for the Export File, it is all numeric, without any separation
within the fields:
PRECINCTO ID - 3 numbers
UNIDAD
ID - 2 numbers
COLEGIO ID - 2 numbers
CANDIDATE 1 - 4 numbers
CANDIDATE 2 - 4
numbers
CANDIDATE 3
- 4 numbers
CANDIDATE 4 - 4
numbers
CANDIDATE 5
- 4 numbers
CANDIDATE 6 - 4
numbers
OTR - 4 numbers - (This field is Overvotes &
Write-Ins)
NAD - 4 numbers - (This field is No Adjudicado -
(Challenged))
BLN - 4 numbers - (This field is for
Blanks)
The PRECINCTO, UNIDAD, & COLEGIO are defined all
together in the Reporting Precinct. If I put into the Export field, these
7 numbers together, then we should be able to give them what they want for these
3 fields.
Here is an example:
0130101002300450025003300120042000300010006
PRECINCTO =
013
UNIDAD =
01
COLEGIO =
01
CANDIDATE 1 =
0023
CANDIDATE 2 =
0045
CANDIDATE 3
=
0025
CANDIDATE 4
=
0033
CANDIDATE 5
=
0012
CANDIDATE 6
=
0042
OTR =
0003
NAD =
0001
BLN =
0006
They want only one CRLF after each
record.
Jeff Hintz
Diebold
Election Systems
405 N. 115th Street
Omaha, NE 68154
(402)
697-7171 office
(402) 697-7166 fax
(402) 871-3346
cell
-----Original Message-----
From:
owner-rcr@dieboldes.com [mailto:owner-rcr@dieboldes.com]On Behalf Of Talbot
Iredale
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 12:57 PM
To:
rcr@dieboldes.com
Subject: Re: Mirror Image MDB linked to GEMS
MDB
We have researched database replication and have
determined the following:
- Of the various solutions Microsoft suggests the
only one that may be at all viable is their Replication
Manager. We currently do not have Replication Manager and so it would
be atleast 2 weeks before we had any real idea if this would even
work. From their documentation there is one potention problem with
using Replication Manager in that it does not do one-way replication, so any
change in the replicated database would be reflected in the master
database.
- The other issue with trying to use database
replication is that GEMS uses unigue keys for all records including the
audit log records. Therefore if GEMS was run on both database there would be
conflicts in the Audit Log when trying to replicate.
Therefore we do not
recommend pursueing database replication.
As for Puerto Rico's desire to produce custom
reports, etc there are three option avalable to them with the current
system.
- First choice Use export
results to export the data and then import into a new database
- Second choice Use the
output from ResultsMonitor as various customers have, including Montreal
Quebec.
- Third choice User the
Regional features of GEMS. Setup the 'Master' database as a 'Regional' site,
upload to this database and then using the Regional Results Server transfer
the results to the second database ("Host"). To use the option a
second region "Master" needs to be created, all the vote centers need to be
set to be in this region, a user needs to be setup to use this region and
you must login as that user for uploads. Note: currently you need to
login as a "Host" region user to be able to re-set the election.
- Not Recommended but possible
Directly connect to the GEMS database, as King County
has.
Tab
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 4:57
AM
Subject: Mirror Image MDB linked to
GEMS MDB
Jurisdiction: San
Juan, Puerto
Rico
Date
Requested: April 3,
2002
Date
Required: May
1, 2002, Actual Election date
is June 30th, but need to test and have ready by May 20th.
Puerto Rico needs a
mirrored MBD file system that linked to the protected GEMS MDB file. This
MDB must be resident on are GEMS server and it must be open and accessible
by their MIS dept. The intent is to have them integrate our results to
their existing IBM main frame and their existing reporting application
software. This is required instead of export of results that we
normally do since they have developed their own jresults type application
were it needs to be a live presentation to the press and to the
public. At the same time they hang terminals off their mainframe to
allow TV, Radio, and Print media to produce their own reports live off the
main frame. The actual layout and structure of this mirror MBD is
needed ASAP since their MIS needs it to develop the access routine to
interface to said MDB.
Juan A. Rivera
Diebold Election
Systems
(214) 335-3478
jrglobal@earthlink.net
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