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Un-setting for election
I figured it would
be worth 5 minutes to explain to those people not yet trained in GEMS what set
for election does. People who have run GEMS elections before might want to
skip this mail.
Set for election
puts locks on the user interface to prevent any tampering with the database that
can change the contents of memory cards (and now TS floppy disks). If you
un set for election, you need to reprogram your memory cards. The Poll
Book and GEMS software has checks in place to prevent memory cards from being
uploaded who's contents could have changed.
Gaston created two
memory cards and then unset because (as I understand it) they did not have time
to enter in the server IP address and phone numbers of the polling place vote
centers. This are only two well-known memory cards with the
wrong version, so this should be manageable. We can create a version of
GEMS and the Poll Book that does not perform these checks for them, as a one
shot only hack. This special Poll Book should only be used for the two
special memory cards, and the GEMS only for this election.
El Paso however has
no reason I am aware of to run the hacked release. Unlike Gaston, all
machines in El Paso are early voting, so there is no reason that the database
needed to be unset. If it has been unset, please explain when and why so
we can make a determination on how to proceed. We can of course run the
hacked version in El Paso; however, doing so without even why the election
was unset is courting disaster.
Ken
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