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John, implement
this as an open primary with a preference race. The preference race will
contain all of the political parties represented in the election and will
appear at the top of the ballot. The voter selects the desired party in
the preference race, then continues with candidate selections. The
AccuVote ignores any candidate selections in races not endorsed by the party
selected in the preference race, so that only selections in races endorsed by
the party selected in the preference race are counted as well as any
non-partisan race selections.
Nel
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Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 1:00
PM
Subject: FW: GEMS programming
question
Please see below and advise. I have already related we
support straight
party and straight party crossover. I believe she is
funning GEMS 1.11.8
or possibly 1. 13
John
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From: Gail Fenumiai [mailto:Gail_Fenumiai@gov.state.ak.us]
Sent:
Thursday, February 08, 2001 3:31 PM
To: John McLaurin
Subject: GEMS
programming question
Can GEMS be programmed to prohibit cross party
voting. Alaska will be
implementing new primary rules for the 2002
election. One of the ideas
floating around is having one ballot that
lists all candidates from a
variety of political parties. Once a
voter fills in the first oval for
a Democrat, they must continue to vote
for all democratic candidates
throughout the remainder of the races
appearing on the ballot. If a
voter tried to vote for a Libertarian
candidate, can GEMS be programmed
to reject this ballot?
Basically,
it means straight party voting, no switching around from race
to
race. I need to know an answer to this very soon.
Thanks.
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