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I agree with Frank and Tyler. I have seen
this "feature" in operation and have serious concerns about making it
a general release.
Should the ballot be held in the throat of the reader while
the message is being displayed? Absolutely not.
In most cases, the voter would insert the ballot, assume that it was accepted by
the AccuVote, leave the precinct and be in the drive-thru at Taco Bell down the
street before the poll workers recognize that a ballot has been returned.
No matter how much training we give them, the poll workers simply don't read the
LCD display every time a ballot is inserted into the AccuVote. If this is
the best way to handle the ballot and scroll the race name, then I am against
scrolling. If developing another way of handling the ballot and scrolling
the name causes problems somewhere else in AccuBasic code or GEMS, then I am
against scrolling.
Should we display the race title or the scrolling name or the
number? I am surprised that this has turned into such
a debate. This is a small screen with a limited amount of space.
Scrolling clearly creates procedural and training problems. A cryptic race
title is not going to make more sense to the average poll worker than a race
number. Since none of these options offer an ideal solution, I would vote
that we not take unnecessary risks in development. Let's stay with what
we've got.
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