Voters in Ontario are in one of five Voter Groups and have
the option of having their taxes go to the appropriate school
board
or they own property in the jurisdiction but do not get
to vote for the school board (cottage country for example), just mayor and
council. They are:
English Public, English
Separate French Public, French Separate and Non-Resident Property Owner
(non-partisan)
Each is set up in the Voter Group Editor, tracking and
separate ballots.
Works fine until there are acclamations and
the jurisdiction expects voter turnout from each of the five
categories.
More complications when two councillors are
acclaimed.
Assuming the ridiculous to make the point - Wards 7 and 8 have
the ward councillors acclaimed and the four school trustees in the two wards are
also acclaimed. A possible of ten ballots has been reduced to one with
only the mayor's race. The jurisdiction wants to know the turnout for the
ten groups.
The work around is to create the race with the acclaimed
candidate and move it to the back of the ballot. (In Canadian
municipal elections, only Vancouver uses the back of the ballot.)
Then have the ballots printed with the back blank.
This creates the ten ballots, the proper headers
identifying the ballot are positioned and the acclaimed races/candidates appear
in the Election reports. Someone may smudge the back of the ballot
where the programmed voting position is and inadvertently create a vote.
This could be changed with manual entry in the unlikely event it
should happen.
Problem: The headers change when placed on the
ballot. The non-partisan ballots 1, 6, 11, 16, 21, etc. are all headered
Non-Resident Property Owner but switch to French Separate, an acclaimed
race. English Public, English Separate and French Public headers work the
way they should. I have the French Separate header tied to it's race ID
(260) and the French Public to ID250.
Is the problem that there is only one candidate?
or the header is on the front of the ballot and race has been moved
to the back? I can not produce a set of ballots with the correct
headers.
Frustrated,
Greg Forsythe Global Election Systems, Inc 24 Hirondelle Place, Ontario M3A 1V8 Phone (416) 446-1383 Fax (416) 446-1425 gfglobal@earthlink.net www.gesn.com |
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