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Re: Central Count Reader Testing



I think the Lucid reader software was intended to deal with the "shadow" associated with the "V" in a folded ballots.  All the issues I am dealing with in this thread are associated with the physical properties associated with friction as a ballot that has increased thickness at a number of points such that it causes "timing" issues in reading the various id, timing, and diagnostic marks on a ballot.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Clark
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 2:08 PM
Subject: RE: Central Count Reader Testing

From: owner-support@gesn.com [mailto:owner-support@gesn.com]On Behalf Of Steve Knecht
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 3:52 AM
 
  • The "smoothing" process greatly affects the ballots going thru the units smoothly.  The folks in Santa Barbara have accepted this process and seem ok with it.  The "low staffing" sites, such as Humboldt, bristle at the thought of having to manually smooth out the fold on each ballot.  But they may not have a choice.   
 
This used to be standard operating procedure with the inferred readers.  Some of the old guard might even remember Stewart Seidel's Accu-Iron.  Seems to me this was one of issues the Lucid readers were supposed to fix...
 
Ken