Posted on behalf
of Tari and Knecht. There are 32 channels on the AccuVote reader,
which means that a three column ballot must have one of the three columns 10
channels wide and the other two 11. The way the columns
are calculated was changed in 1.14 to support landscape ballots.
Doing a quick test on 1.16.9, it looks like the current behavior is 11, 11,
10; however, Tari seems to indicate that some of her accounts have a
"narrow" first column. This is causing width problems with
the presidential race. If this is the case, please
send me a copy of the database in question so I can take a
look.
Note that there
is no real "bug" here. No matter what, some column needs to
be 10, and whatever column we choose is not going to work for some ballot
layout. The correct answer to this problem is a long
standing to-do (don't think there is an RCR) to be able to define the
column widths. Its not trivial because the correct user interface is a
ruler-like control where you can drag around the widths. This might be
a good enough excuse to get around to it though. I'll let you know
more once I have seen the database.
Ken