Re: Multiple Cumulative Counter Groups - Cannot get correct Number of Pr

For what it's worth, I drilled into Georgia customers last year never to use default vote centers. What you are describing occurs with the default vote centers, but not with non-default vote centers.

Recuperate using the following steps:

delete both Absentee and Early Voting counter groups
re-add the counter groups, again with unique vote center categories
re-define the two cumulative report precincts
create a unique vote center in each of the Absentee and Early Voting vote center categories
link the cumulative report precincts to the corresponding vote centers only

Nel

----- Original Message -----

From: Jeff Hintz

To: support@gesn.com

Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 5:49 PM

Subject: RE: Multiple Cumulative Counter Groups - Cannot get correct Number of Precincts total

I did not put both the Absentee & Early report precincts together. GEMS did this automatically for me, and I cannot delete the Early from Absentee, or visa-versa. If I could, I think that all would be fine.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-support@gesn.com [mailto:owner-support@gesn.com]On Behalf Of Ken Clark
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 5:42 PM
To: support@gesn.com
Subject: RE: Multiple Cumulative Counter Groups - Cannot get correct Number of Precincts total

You have the Absentee and Early report precinct both in the Absentee vote center. Ditto Early vote center. That is, um, a weird thing to do. Delete Early report precinct out of Absentee vote center, and visa-versa, and you should be fine.

That said, there does seem to be a double accounting here for this oddball case. There is definitely only one early voting precinct reporting.

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-support@gesn.com [mailto:owner-support@gesn.com]On Behalf Of Jeff Hintz
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 3:35 PM
To: support@gesn.com
Subject: RE: Multiple Cumulative Counter Groups - Cannot get correct Number of Precincts total

Here is the database. No matter if I create seperate Vote Center Categories, or have both counter groups under the same Vote Center Category, I still come up with the same result on the report.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-support@gesn.com [mailto:owner-support@gesn.com]On Behalf Of Ken Clark
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 4:09 PM
To: support@gesn.com
Subject: RE: Multiple Cumulative Counter Groups - Cannot get correct Number of Precincts total

Hold on, I think I misread this. Jeff, can you email me the database so we can play.

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-support@gesn.com [mailto:owner-support@gesn.com]On Behalf Of Ken Clark
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 2:05 PM
To: support@gesn.com
Subject: RE: Multiple Cumulative Counter Groups - Cannot get correct Number of Precincts total

This is actually correct, though it can be confusing. The Absentee and Early counter groups are in the same precinct in this example. So, we don't sum them, they only count once. The total number of precinct is 12, not 14. You will get the same answer whether the counter group totals box is check or not.

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-support@gesn.com [mailto:owner-support@gesn.com]On Behalf Of Jeff Hintz
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 1:24 PM
To: Support Team (E-mail)
Subject: Multiple Cumulative Counter Groups - Cannot get correct Number of Precincts total

I have tried a couple of different ways to set up 2 Cumulative Counter Groups. But no matter how I do it, when I print out a Election Summary Report with the Counter Group Totals Only check box unchecked, I get the Number of Precincts to be 2 for each Cumulative Counter Group, whereI believe it should be 1. The Total is correct, but makes it very confusing, if you are adding from left to right. Please see below.

Maybe I am not doing something correct????

JEFF HINTZ

Global Election Systems

Re: Multiple Cumulative Counter Groups - Cannot get correct Number of Precincts total