Re: VTS Question FW: What happens if...

["Steve Knecht" <skglobal@earthlink.net>]

Good question, and probably relevant to us all as of today.
----- Original Message -----
From: John McLaurin Earthlink <jmglobal@earthlink.net>
To: Support <support@gesn.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2070 7:58 AM
Subject: VTS Question FW: What happens if...


> Please see below and advise.  Just so y'all don't think it's always sunny
in
> Florida, it is 33 degrees outside today.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sabrina Pemberton-Piper [mailto:elections101@mindspring.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 4:25 PM
> To: jmglobal@earthlink.net
> Subject: What happens if...
>
> >From Cobb Cty. GA
> A candidate withdraws from the race (rumored Orrin Hatch) before the
> election 3/7/00 and the memory cards have already been programmed.  In
> Georgia,
> the law says that votes cast for a withdrawn candidate must not be
counted.
>  With our previous system we took care of the ballots by putting a sign up
> in each booth advising the voter that the candidate(s) had withdrawn and
> any vote cast for that candidate would not be counted.  Then the
tabulating
> system was programmed not to count that ballot position so "0" votes would
> show for that candidate or the candidate would not show on election night.
>
> How is that handled with this system?
>
>