Greetings:
The subject of printing serial numbers on ballots has
reared its' head again. BELOW is what was discussed
before. El Paso County, TX, who is going county wide, and uses the BOD
printer exclusively has again requested this function be added to GEMS.
Norfolk, Va is also requesting this function to the BOD
printer.
How should I respond? Can I give them a time
frame? Thanks.
Rodney D. Turner
Diebold Election Systems
214-642-6289
Tab, I hope these
answers help you. If not, please give me a call.
- Does this not violate voter secrecy? Some states have legislation that
prohibits any identifying mark on the ballot that would allow someone to
identify the voter who cast the ballot.
No, in Texas they
track their ballots by putting serial numbers on them (Texas Election Code
52.062). They have something that is called a ballot-register that
they must keep, so they know where their ballots went and how
many.
2. If we were to implement the 'automatic' incrementing
of serial numbers, how about ballots that do not print correctly? Can we just
ignore this problem and have 'missing' serial numbers.
NO.. we
would have to have a way to reprint the ballot with the correct serial
number.
3. What kind of audit logging to they want, if
any?
No audit
log needed....
4. Is printing the serial number
next to the ballot/precinct label at the bottom of the ballot acceptable, or are
they going to want to place the serial number somewhere in the header of
the ballot? Implementing this would be a lot of work.
I understand. The counties
would accept whatever we decide to place the serial number. Printing the serial
number next to the ballot/precinct label would be acceptable.
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 deliver if they choose us as a vendor. I can tell El Paso county
that we are working on it.
Thanks.
Rodney
-----Original
Message-----
From: owner-rcr@gesn.com [mailto:owner-rcr@gesn.com]On
Behalf Of Talbot Iredale
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 5:35
PM
To: rcr@gesn.com
Subject: Re: serial numbers on
ballots
Rodney,
I have a few question
regarding this RCR:
- Does this not violate voter secrecy? Some states
have legislation that prohibits any identifying mark on the ballot that
would allow someone to identify the voter who cast the ballot.
- If we were to implement the 'automatic'
incrementing of serial numbers, how about ballots that do not print
correctly? Can we just ignore this problem and have 'missing' serial
numbers.
- What kind of audit logging to they want, if
any?
- Is printing the serial number next to the
ballot/precinct label at the bottom of the ballot acceptable, or are they
going to want to place the serial number somewhere in the header of the
ballot? Implementing this would be a lot of work.
- When does this have to be implemented
by?
Tab
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 8:49
AM
Subject: serial numbers on
ballots
We are in the
process of Best and Final Offer with two counties, Bexar County and Travis
County.
We are going
county wide with AccuVote-TS in El Paso county.
These counties
will all have BOD printers. They are requesting that their BOD printer
be able to print
serial numbers
on their ballots. They want to be able to manually set the first
number, then have it
increment
sequence ally from there. This could seal the deal for at least
one county, Bexar. We would
win big points
with El Paso and Travis. We need to have an answer for them fairly
quickly. They will be making their
decision around
the 29th of this month. Thanks.