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For
instance in Michigan, a voter would sign in and be given a voter card. They do not have to declare a party to
the poll judges. When the voter
card in inserted into the TS unit, the first screen that comes up is the
different party names, like when you select what language you want. They would select at that time the
party they wish to vote in, and then from that point on, that would be the only
party ballot that they will see and be able to vote on. -----Original
Message----- What do you
mean by open primary? Can you describe to me what it is that doesn't work
on the AVTS? -----
Original Message -----
To: support@gesn.com Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001
9:39 AM Subject: RE:
Open Primary Election on AVTS PSINet
has set up 4 different election scenarios in GEMS, based upon a Test Scripts
document that we sent to them. Those test scripts include 1) Open
Primary; 2) Closed Primary; 3) General Election; and 4) Advanced Options
within a General Election. These have all been tested within GEMS and a
AccuVote for version 1.11.13.5. They are now testing GEMS 1.17.11.3 with
both a AccuVote and a AVTS with these same test scripts. That is where we
encountered the problem with the AVTS and a Open Primary. As you state
Ken, they are only testing the GEMS software, so yes they can and probably will
Certify GEMS with the exception that open primaries do not currently work with
the AVTS. -----Original
Message----- This
doesn't make sense. PSINet does not certify the AVTS. I'd add that
we don't have any AVTS open primary customers, and aren't likely to have one
any time soon. I suggest that PSINet concern itself with GEMS. If
they want to attach a proviso saying that open primaries are not NASED
certified when used in conjunction with the AVTS, that's fine. It
works with AVOS. If they want GEMS to put up an error if you try to
download an open primary to an R4 AVTS, that can be arranged. And
yes, the R6 supports open primaries. I
stress however that what the R6 can and cannot do is beside the
point. Say we add support for cross endorsement in GEMS for the AVOS
only before cross endorsement is implemented on the AVTS. This isn't a
hypothetical: it will probably happen that way. Just because we
implement a feature for one of our voting machines doesn't mean it has to
be implemented in all of them for GEMS to be certified. I challenge them
to point out where in the FEC rules it says that all voting machines have to
implement all voting rules. If they think this is a requirement, I'd like
to have a short discussion with them about our competition's products. Ken -----Original
Message----- Within
our current GEMS 1.17.11 and AVTS 3.13.9.2, we do not support an Open Primary
Election on the AVTS systems. I am currently here in Huntsville, AL and
doing testing with PSINet, where we have encountered this problem. In
order to certify, we need to show the ability to do an Open Primary Election on
the AVTS system. Is this going to be supported in the new R-6 system??? JEFF HINTZ Global Election Systems |