Our first priority
is to generate correct election results. That is an absolute. This
is not a customer prerogative.
If
our customers, or anyone else, has suggestions on how to make
our products more flexible without compromising the integrity of the
election, the RCR list is at your disposal. I welcome (even enjoy)
suggestions that make GEMS easier to use.
Elections,
however, are event driven. Ballots need to be printed by a certain
deadline, and memory cards need to be burnt by a certain deadline. In
short, elections are not flexible. That is the nature of our
business. Get used to it.
My job is
to write election software. On occasion as an added service I also explain
how set-for-election works, even though the feature has been in VTS since
the day Global Election Systems was formed. Apparently doing the latter
was a mistake. I guess I'll stick to my job description; I am
better at coding than support anyway.
But really, I am in
too good a mood today to get into a job description debate with you, Juan.
I don't think you want that.
Again, if you can
suggest a way to design a electronic DRE system that does not have removable
media as its primary storage, I will be the first person to champion
it.
You'll need to talk
to sales about that suggestion. I just write the
stuff.
Ken
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