Item 3. Ken/Tab
RETENTION: Explain how we meet the federal, 22-month election
retention requirements. Are all logs (if there are more than 1) sent
to GEMS where they can be backed up and stored on tape or diskette?
Whatever logs there are have to be retained for the 22 months period.
How do we accomplish this?
Print it to
tape.
Uploading of
log entries is a reasonable RCR, and it has come up before. Unfortunately,
unless we do some pretty clever compression of the logs, it is not doable.
We can't stall upload on election night, and we can't bloat the GEMS database
with a gigabyte of useless "ballot cast at 1:35pm" entries.
Item 4. Ken
MAGNIFICATION: What is the percentage increase of the font for
magnification (i.e., 20%,
30% ,50%).
We scale by
133%. But my real answer is, it doesn't matter, why do you ask. It
should probably be configurable by the user, and probably will be one
day.
Item 5. Ken CE
ACCESS: Provide a definitive answer to the question whether a
poll worker,
voter, or other unauthorized persons could in any way gain
access to CE. Yesterday you implied that it is a function of a "flag" or
something in CE which is loaded onto the Motherboard. Is this the
case? If so, then please Explain the meaning and use of the "Enable
Taskbar" function in the Supervisor Menu.
This is
actually an extremely complicated question. But here is the short
answer. You need to put a tamper-proof security seal on the lock, just
like with the AccuVote-OS. Breaking the seal needs to be witnessed and
signed off by more than one person. It is not possible to access the OS
without opening the door.
As to the
enable taskbar function, it will be gone in 4.1.3. I gather from you that
it doesn't work anyway (despite the lack of bugtrack).
Item 6 Ken BALLOT
RANDOMIZING: Naegle wants to know how we "randomize" the ballots when
we store them. We weren't clear how the ballot serial number or Seq.
Nos. related to this. Naegle wants teh "algorithm" for randomizing the
ballots.
Hmm, this is
one of those "I wonder if they know what they are asking"
questions. We use a linear congruential sequence generator to
randomize the ballots.
Item 7. Ken CE SIZE:
How many "bytes" does the CE operating system take up?
Lots. (ugh -- searches) 5,220,991
bytes
It is a
meaningless number.
Item 8 Ken BS Software
Size: Naegle wants to know "how many lines of Code" the ballot
station software is. (Roughly)
Roughly: lots. (expletive deleted)
70951
lines.
Item 9: Ken RCR to Return to
Summary Screen: Our present summary screen allows voter to
touch a race and go to that page. Is there an RCR to return directly
back to the summary page somehow (new button or whatever)?
There is
not. I hope there will no be one forthcoming.
Item 10 Ken/Tab Software Design Doc - I
think I know the answer to this, but..... Is there a software design document
that was used to develop this software?
There is the
Technical Documentation Package we sent to Wyle. You can get a copy from
Dix.
Um, yeah,
that is what we used to develop the software.
Ken
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