Tyler Links wrote:
Could you provide a
synopsis of the basic behavior of each of the .abo files which GEMS
supports?You know, the basic
stuff, which ones produce long tapes, which ones produce short tapes,
which ones give you a choice, which ones show all of the long tape
information, which ones only show a ballots cast summary, which ones
have specific certification language at the end,
etc.
I don’t want to put
too fine a point on it, but I requested this 11 months
ago.
I think that I got Nel to volunteer for this one and then it
got sidelined on his job list. Sorry about that. What I'm going
to do is give you the raw comments from the source file headers. Here
goes:
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194 Canadian:
REM 194can.abs - The standard
Accu-Basic Source file for Canada.
REM In election mode this
produces a short precinct totals report
REM for the default
election results and offers to print short
REM reports with
summaries and precinct breakdowns until
REM powered off.
REM In pre-election and post-election modes it will print all
REM combinations of long and short reports.
REM
***************************************************************************
REM 96-10-11 GLL Created from stdcan.abs.
REM 96-10-22 GLL Fix to
handle xtot as unsigned.
REM 96-10-22 GLL Modified to avoid malloc bug
in pre 194f^ (1.94l) releases.
REM 97-03-27 GLL Add page before prompts.
REM 97-03-27 GLL Allow 5 digits for long counters.
REM
***************************************************************************
-----------------
194 Demo:
REM 194demo.abs - The standard
Accu-Basic Source file for the demonstrations.
REM In election
mode this produces a short summary report for the default
REM
election results and offers to print short reports with summaries and
REM precinct breakdowns until powered off.
REM In
pre-election and post-election modes it will print all combinations
REM of short reports.
REM
***************************************************************************
REM 96-10-10 GLL Created from stddemo.abs.
REM 96-10-22 GLL Fix to
handle xtot as unsigned.
REM 96-10-22 GLL Modified to avoid malloc bug
in pre 194f^ (1.94l) releases.
REM 97-03-27 GLL Add PAGE before prompts.
REM 97-03-27 GLL Allow 5 digits for long counters.
REM
***************************************************************************
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194 French:
REM 194fr.abs - The standard
Accu-Basic Source file for the French Canada.
REM In election mode
this produces a short precinct totals report
REM for the default
election results and offers to print short
REM reports with
summaries and precinct breakdowns until
REM powered off.
REM In pre-election and post-election modes it will print all
REM combinations of long and short reports.
REM NOTE:
This does not handle cross endorsed candidates.
REM
***************************************************************************
REM 96-10-11 GLL Created from stdus.abs and old stdfr.abs.
REM
96-10-22 GLL Fix to handle xtot as unsigned.
REM 96-10-22 GLL Modified
to avoid malloc bug in pre 194f^ (1.94l) releases.
REM 96-10-22 GLL Fix
problem where get_yesno() was printing "NO".
REM 96-10-30 GLL
Clean up ballot count reporting.
REM 96-11-01 GLL Add numeric default
straight party codes up to 16.
REM 97-03-27 GLL Add PAGE before prompts.
REM 97-03-27 GLL Allow 5 digits for long counters.
REM 99-10-25 GLL
Print only the blank lines in the signatures section.
REM
***************************************************************************
------------------
194 US:
REM 194us.abs - The standard
Accu-Basic Source file for the United States.
REM In election mode
this produces a short precinct totals report
REM for the default
election results and offers to print short
REM reports with
summaries and precinct breakdowns until
REM powered off.
REM In pre-election and post-election modes it will print all
REM combinations of long and short reports.
REM
***************************************************************************
REM 96-10-11 GLL Created from stdus.abs.
REM 96-10-22 GLL Fix to
handle xtot as unsigned.
REM 96-10-22 GLL Modified to avoid malloc bug
in pre 194f^ (1.94l) releases.
REM 96-10-24 GLL print_wrapString()
truncates trailing spaces.
REM 97-03-27 GLL Add PAGE before prompts.
REM 97-03-27 GLL Allow 5 digits for long counters.
REM
***************************************************************************
------------------
194 US 5 decimals:
REM 194us5d.abs - The
standard Accu-Basic Source file for the United States
REM with 5
digits allowed for all counters.
REM In election mode this
produces a short precinct totals report
REM for the default
election results and offers to print short
REM reports with
summaries and precinct breakdowns until
REM powered off.
REM In pre-election and post-election modes it will print all
REM combinations of long and short reports.
REM
***************************************************************************
REM 96-10-11 GLL Created from stdus5d.abs.
REM 96-10-22 GLL Fix to
handle xtot as unsigned.
REM 96-10-22 GLL Modified to avoid malloc bug
in pre 194f^ (1.94l) releases.
REM 97-03-27 GLL Add PAGE before prompts.
REM
***************************************************************************
------------------
194 California:
REM 194usca.abs - The
Accu-Basic Source file for the state of California.
REM In
election mode this produces a cards cast report
REM for the
default zero totals and election results and offers
REM to print
short reports with summaries and precinct breakdowns
REM until
powered off. All results reports include cards cast with
REM
party codes for closed primary ballots.
REM In pre-election and
post-election modes it will print all
REM combinations of long and
short reports.
REM
***************************************************************************
REM 00-05-16 GLL Created from 194usga.abs.
REM 00-05-28 GLL Also
print just cards cast for election zero totals.
REM
***************************************************************************
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194uscp: [VTS only]
REM 194uscp.abs - The
standard Accu-Basic Source file for Cambridge's
REM Preference
voting in the United States.
REM In election mode this produces a
short precinct totals report
REM for the default election results
and offers to print short
REM reports with summaries and precinct
breakdowns until
REM powered off.
REM In pre-election
and post-election modes it will print all
REM combinations of long
and short reports.
REM The candidate counts are not printed since
they are always zero
REM for Cambridge Preference.
REM
***************************************************************************
REM 96-10-11 GLL Created from stdus.abs.
REM 96-10-22 GLL Fix to
handle xtot as unsigned.
REM 96-10-22 GLL Modified to avoid malloc bug
in pre 194f^ (1.94l) releases.
REM 96-10-24 GLL print_wrapString()
truncates trailing spaces.
REM 97-03-27 GLL Add PAGE before prompts.
REM 97-03-27 GLL Allow 5 digits for long counters.
REM 97-10-23 GLL
Suppress printing candidate counters.
REM
***************************************************************************
-----------------
194 Georgia:
REM 194usga.abs - The standard
Accu-Basic Source file for the state of Georgia.
REM In election
mode this produces a short precinct totals report
REM for the
default election results and offers to print short
REM reports
with summaries and precinct breakdowns until
REM powered
off. All results reports include cards cast with
REM party
codes for closed primary ballots.
REM In pre-election and
post-election modes it will print all
REM combinations of long and
short reports.
REM
***************************************************************************
REM 00-05-11 GLL Created from 194us.abs.
REM 00-05-28 GLL Enable
searching for partisan card party code.
REM
***************************************************************************
-----------------
194 Illinois:
REM 194usil.abs - The Accu-Basic
Source file for the the State of Illinois.
REM In election mode
this produces a short precinct totals report
REM for the default
election results and then offers to print short
REM precinct
breakdowns. In the election end and post-election
REM modes
it offers to repeat this until powered off.
REM
REM In
pre-election mode it will print these or a summary.
REM
REM In
pre and post election modes, it offers to print long
REM versions
of the reports.
REM
REM For Illinois we include blank votes in
the undervotes.
REM
***************************************************************************
REM 00-01-18 GLL Adapted from 194us.abs for Illinois.
REM 00-01-28
GLL Modified to not offer summaries of election results.
REM 00-01-28
GLL Modified to offer each pct result after election default.
REM
00-02-16 GLL Fix undervotes to use race.vote_for rather than no_running.
REM
***************************************************************************
------------------
194usjc: [VTS only]
REM 194usjc.abs - The
Accu-Basic Source file for Jefferson County as requested by Debbie Musser.
REM This version is based on the 194us.abs as of Jan. 6, 1998 but
is modified to suppress
REM the straight party
races.
REM
REM In election mode this produces a short precinct
totals report
REM for the default election results and offers to
print short
REM reports with summaries and precinct breakdowns
until
REM powered off.
REM In pre-election and
post-election modes it will print all
REM combinations of long and
short reports.
REM
***************************************************************************
REM 96-10-11 GLL Created from stdus.abs.
REM 96-10-22 GLL Fix to
handle xtot as unsigned.
REM 96-10-22 GLL Modified to avoid malloc bug
in pre 194f^ (1.94l) releases.
REM 96-10-24 GLL print_wrapString()
truncates trailing spaces.
REM 97-03-27 GLL Add PAGE before prompts.
REM 97-03-27 GLL Allow 5 digits for long counters.
REM
***************************************************************************
-----------------
194 Massachusetts:
REM 194usma.abs - The
standard Accu-Basic Source file for the states of
REM MA, NH, ME,
CT, and RI which:
REM - report all non-used votes as blank votes,
REM - prints ballot summary after race summary,
REM In
election mode this produces a short precinct totals report for the
REM default election results and offers to print short reports
with
REM summaries and precinct breakdowns until powered off.
REM In pre-election and post-election modes it will print all
combinations
REM of long and short reports.
REM
***************************************************************************
REM 96-10-11 GLL Created from stdusma.abs.
REM 96-10-22 GLL Fix to
handle xtot as unsigned.
REM 96-10-22 GLL Modified to avoid malloc bug
in pre 194f^ (1.94l) releases.
REM 97-03-27 GLL Add PAGE before prompts.
REM 97-03-27 GLL Allow 5 digits for long counters.
REM
***************************************************************************
---------------------
194 Minnesota:
REM 194usmn.abs - The
Accu-Basic Source file for the state of Minnisota.
REM In election
mode this produces a short precinct totals report
REM for the
default election results and offers to print short
REM reports
with summaries and precinct breakdowns until
REM powered off.
REM In pre-election and post-election modes it will print all
REM combinations of long and short reports.
REM
***************************************************************************
REM 97-05-14 GLL Modified from 194us.abs.
REM
***************************************************************************
---------------------
194 US Summary:
REM 194ussm.abs -
Accu-Basic Source file for summary only election night results.
REM In election mode this produces a short summary totals report
REM for the election results and then offers to print short
REM reports with summaries and precinct breakdowns until
REM powered off.
REM In pre-election and post-election
modes it will print all
REM combinations of long and short
reports.
REM
***************************************************************************
REM 96-10-11 GLL Created from stdus.abs.
REM 96-10-22 GLL Fix to
handle xtot as unsigned.
REM 96-10-22 GLL Modified to avoid malloc bug
in pre 194f^ (1.94l) releases.
REM 96-10-24 GLL print_wrapString()
truncates trailing spaces.
REM 97-03-27 GLL Add PAGE before prompts.
REM 97-03-27 GLL Allow 5 digits for long counters.
REM
***************************************************************************
------------------
194 Virginia:
REM 194usva.abs - The standard
Accu-Basic Source file for the Virginia, USA
REM which:
REM - prints long reports in election mode.
REM In
election mode this produces a long precinct totals report with
REM
an optional summary report for the default election results and offers
REM to print short reports with summaries and precinct breakdowns
until
REM powered off.
REM In pre-election and
post-election modes it will print all combinations
REM of long and
short reports.
REM
***************************************************************************
REM 96-10-10 GLL Created from stdusva.abs.
REM 96-10-22 GLL Fix to
handle xtot as unsigned.
REM 96-10-22 GLL Modified to avoid malloc bug
in pre 194f^ (1.94l) releases.
REM 97-03-27 GLL Add PAGE before prompts.
REM 97-03-27 GLL Allow 5 digits for long counters.
REM
***************************************************************************
------------------
194 Vermont:
REM 194usvm.abs - The standard
Accu-Basic Source file for the state of Vermont
REM which:
REM - reports blank votes as undervotes,
REM - prints
ballot summary after race summary,
REM - always reports write-in
ballots in summary.
REM In election mode this produces a short
precinct totals report with
REM an optional summary report for the
default election results and offers
REM to print short reports
with summaries and precinct breakdowns until
REM powered off.
REM In pre-election and post-election modes it will print all
combinations
REM of long and short reports.
REM
***************************************************************************
REM 96-10-11 GLL Created from stdusvm.abs.
REM 96-10-22 GLL Fix to
handle xtot as unsigned.
REM 96-10-22 GLL Modified to avoid malloc bug
in pre 194f^ (1.94l) releases.
REM 97-03-27 GLL Add PAGE before prompts.
REM 97-03-27 GLL Allow 5 digits for long counters
REM 00-01-25 GLL
Print card summary on short as well as long reports.
REM
***************************************************************************
--------------------
194 Wisconsin:
REM 194uswi.abs - The
Accu-Basic Source file for the state of Wisconsin.
REM This is
based on 194us.abs but prints RPT UNIT instead of
REM PRECINCT and
prints SCATTERING instead of WRITE-INS for the
REM race results.
REM
***************************************************************************
REM 00-01-11 GLL Modified from 194us.abs for Wisconsin.
REM
***************************************************************************
--------------------
195 Anoka:
REM 195anoka.abs - The Accu-Basic
Source file for Anoka Co., Minnisota.
REM In election mode this
produces a short precinct totals report
REM for the default
election results and offers to print short
REM reports with
summaries and precinct breakdowns until
REM powered off.
REM In pre-election and post-election modes it will print all
REM combinations of long and short reports.
REM
Candidates are printed in the order that they appear on the
REM
first ballot card containing the race.
REM Precinct headings print
the new precinct name string.
REM
***************************************************************************
REM 98-09-14 GLL Modified from 194anoka.abs.
REM 99-02-04 GLL Added
VOTECTR.NAME to label.
REM
***************************************************************************
---------------------
195 Wisconsion:
REM 195uswi.abs - The
Accu-Basic Source file for the state of Wisconsin.
REM This is
based on 194us.abs but prints RPT UNIT instead of
REM PRECINCT and
prints SCATTERING instead of WRITE-INS for the
REM race
results. It also prints the vote center name on the
REM
label.
REM
***************************************************************************
REM 00-01-19 GLL Modified from 194us.abs for Wisconsin.
REM
***************************************************************************
--------------------
I can't guarantee that these descriptions are accurate but we
try. Anyone want to volunteer to turn this into a proper document?
Guy