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From:
Gail Fenumiai [ mailto:Gail_Fenumiai@gov.state.ak.us]
Sent:
Friday, February 09, 2001 1:23 PM
To:
John McLaurin
Subject:
Re: FW: Straight Party vs Preference Races (was: GEMS programming question)
Okay,
now I am thoroughly confused. I may have used the wrong language
in my initial message. Did Guy get my original message? What
is being proposed is that ALL candidates, regardless of party affiliation
appear on the same ballot. A voter must make the choice to vote for
candidates in all races from the same political party. Will GEMS
be able to reject a ballot (or not count for a race) if a voter starts
voting for democratic candidates and then chooses a libertarian candidate?
Sorry to have confused everyone...Thanks again.
Please advise your customer that GEMS does not handle ballots,
the Accu-Votes (in their various forms) do. And it really helps to
specify as exactly as possible which type and release of AV you're talking
about.
In response to the question, the AV-OS-PC (assuming that this
is what we're talking about) will reject cross voted open primary ballots
if the Accu-Vote reject flag (called "Over Voted Crossover Races" in GEMS
I believe) is set. Otherwise the partisan races on a cross voted
ballot would not be counted.
Nel has proposed using a party preference race but if that race
was voted, then the AV-OS-PC would not reject cross voted ballots because
in that case it would not even look at races of other parties.
Questions?
Guy
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