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This is an After Election Report for the City of
Norfolk, VA.
The City of Norfolk was new account with 55
precincts.
We deployed into the field, 245 AVTS voting
units, 55 AVTS demo units and 2 AVTS-OS units. Election Day was the 7th of
May 2002.
During acceptance testing, we found 3 units that
had the continuous boot problem. We had another two that would not boot at
all, and we had one where only the bottom PCMCIA slot would work. Of,
course these units were sent for repair prior to the election.
We had 8 AVTS units that would not release the
Voter Card after voting. It appears to be the same problem that was
experienced in Shelby County, TN. On 5 of these units, the problem was
intermittent, but was still a problem. So, we had to take these units out of
service.
We had problems with 11 AVTS voting booths. It
appears that in four of the booths, the booth power cord, that plugs into the
AVTS unit was not working. Therefore, after 7 hours of voting, those
units ran out of juice. We had to plug them directly into a wall socket
and bypass the booth. We had tested the booth plug-in outlet of these booths,
they were working properly, but apparently the AVTS booth power cord that plugs
into the AVTS unit was not. One booth handle was broken. On three on
the booths, the outer locking latch is broken. On the last three, the
metal bracing bracket was bent. I can see the metal bracing bracket
attached to the legs is going to be a problem. It is very flimsy.
Are there replacement parts for the
booths??
The booths and AVTS units will be shipped back to
McKinney for maintenance and repairs.
There were other minor problems with poll workers
deleting their Spyrus with the Manager Card. We will re-address this
at future training sessions.
Other than the few items mentioned above, the
election was a great success. We were able to modem upload all but 15
precincts, this is more than expected. Accumulating results, AccuVote-OS,
reporting all went great.
Rodney D. Turner
Diebold Election Systems
214-642-6289 cell
800-433-8683 ext. 159
972-542-6044 fax
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