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I've
spoken to Beth Kish and she is able to reproduce the problem using a ballot torn
on one corner. It doesn't matter what side of the ballot is torn, only the
ballot orientation and the fact that a timing mark is missing. When
the ballot is fed into the reader with the tear on the right side, trailing
edge, the full ballot is scanned, then stops, leaving the ballot
hanging at the back end of the reader. She couldn't tell if the
pinch rollers have a piece of the ballot or not. The LCD displays "Invalid
Ballot - See Official", but no motor reversal occurs. This may have
to do with the exit sensor not being covered by the ballot. Although the
AV CPU knows it couldn't process the ballot, it senses there is no ballot
in the exit of the reader and never turns on the motor to reverse the
ballot. This is all speculation, but Beth is sending me some of her
ballots (fresh and torn) with which to experiment. I should receive them
tomorrow.
The
other orientations:
When
feeding the tear on right side, leading edge, the reader doesn't even turn ON.
(The input sensor can't see the ballot and the pinch roller stops it from
going in any deeper.)
When
feeding the tear on the left side, leading edge, the ballot is rejected,
the LCD displays "Invalid Ballot - See Official". (The reader doesn't
calibrate all channels on the leading edge and sends a datastream of zeros to
the AV CPU, the AV CPU rejects the ballot within the first inch
scanned.)
When
feeding the tear on the left side, trailing edge, the ballot is rejected, the
LCD displays "Invalid Ballot - See Official". (The reader times out on the
timing mark interval and doesn't receive a proper tick count. The AV CPU
rejects the ballot but has plenty of ballot underneath the pinch rollers at the
time it rejects the ballot.)
Ian
I've
been informed by Don V. that Cobb County had experienced the same, but they
suspected torn ballots (stubs removed from the ballot bottom also removed
part of the timing mark.) I'll be following that up today by
contacting Beth Kish in Cobb for details.
Perhaps more details can be gathered (by John, Don, and Steve) from the
other accounts experiencing this.
Ian
Gwinnett
County GA testifies to it as a
recurring problem. We’ve had it in Savannah also. One or two in Brevard county in the
Nov. 6th election and one in Duval in the last special
election. All are running
1.94W
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From:
owner-support@gesn.com [mailto:owner-support@gesn.com]On Behalf Of Don Biszmaier
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 10:46
AM
To:
support@gesn.com
Subject:
Re: AccuVote-OS "passing ballots"
Steve: I have had
it happen a few times and could find no reason for it. At the precinct I
usually suspect poll worker error. But have had it occur on rerun of the
ballots.
Don
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To: Global Sales ;
Global Support
Sent: Tuesday, November
06, 2001 11:13 PM
Subject: AccuVote-OS
"passing ballots"
Also have report from Marin regarding
3 precincts with significant "passed ballots", i.e., ballot going
thru
AccuVote without being counted.
Anyone else experiencing this?
Steve Knecht
Global Election
Systems
415-893-9941 office 415-893-9951 fax
415-225-6591
cell
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