Quick support-list follow up to this. Project managers for accounts should start thinking/inquiring about the requirements for write-in processing. Both GEMS and VTS before it have limped along without doing much in the way of write-in processing. This either implies that there are not huge demand for write-in reporting, or accounts are doing the reporting on their own in some way.
We need to know, in detail, how accounts currently process write-ins, and what the requirements are for reporting are. For example, is it necessary in all or some accounts to report write-ins at the precinct level, or are summary reports sufficient? Are the reporting requirements different for the losers, or are all write-ins treated equally? There are many other details. Obviously the requirements are going to vary widely by region.
I had posted a request in the previous write-in thread on the details of how write-ins are to be processed. There wasn't any response. There probably won't be a lot of code written without one.
Ken
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