One additional factor to note on the central count lucid
reader issues. I will be testing this during the next week. There
are some ballots that continue to get "No Ender" or "Calibration", depending on
feed orientation, after being fed 6 or 7 times, but will then finally go
through. I believe what we are seeing here is that these ballots appears
to have cuts that are inside the cut mark at the top and below the timing marks
at the bottom. This shift causes too little time for the AccuVote to
calibrate or to see the first set of marks as its fed through. This means
that we've got several factors combining together. I believe we can work
around these by knowing what to do both procedurally and in the manufacturing to
identify central count units from precinct units. Factors appear to be:
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve
Knecht
To: support@gesn.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 1:51 AM
Subject: Central Count Reader Testing The following information may be useful in determining future
course of action for central count. The following test was run.
I tried five Lucid readers without shimming (.007 width of
ballot paper) using 50% ballots that had been "smoothed" and 50% not
smoothed. Smoothing means that someone takes a smooth blunt object and
presses the crease made by the fold. I then shimmed 5 units. This is
what I noticed:
Conclusion: Variability in Lucid readers can be
significant. Folds are a definite contributing factor to thruput.
Shimming for thickness of folds helps in central
count.
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