Sounds like a PCC-Jornada could
actually go to a vote center and get "personalized" in the
field.
Well, I think
everyone is still bouncing procedures around until a sweet spot is found, but
I don’t think you want to load them in the field on election
day, if that is what you mean. You want poll workers doing as little
as possible, and you really don’t want them ejecting memory cards from AVTS
units to load their PCC. All IMHO.
If you are pointing
out that the logistics of loading 300 PCCs is going
to be a pain, I think everyone shares your sentiment. But it is really the same logistics
that you will have to deal with w.r.t. the ballot
stations themselves.
We got an email from
Ken
Indorf of CardLogix fame promising to have the problem identified by
day’s end, but the follow-up never materialized. It is just as frustrating for us when
the problem is in someone else’s hands. We’ll keep you posted. This issue is still on the front
burner, insofar as it is in our control.
----- Original Message -----
Sent:
Monday, June 10,
2002 11:10
PM
Subject: RE:
Poll Book Questions
Ahh,
gotcha now. You download them
using Ballot Station. Those
“election specific files” are just a (that is, any) PCMCIA card from the
vote center. Any PCMCIA card
from the vote center can be inserted into the PCC, and voila, the PCC takes
on that personality.
So the
sequence of events is:
·
Download all the
PCMCIA cards for a vote center using a ballot station. That will usually mean 3-6 cards,
depending on how many machines they put in a polling
place.
·
Take
one of those cards (any one), and insert it into the PCC.
·
After
it is loaded, take the PCMCIA card and put it in whatever AVTS machine it
belongs in. The PCC doesn’t
need the card once it is loaded.
Ken
-----Original
Message-----
From:
owner-support@gesn.com [mailto:owner-support@gesn.com] On Behalf Of Lesley
Thompson
Sent:
Monday, June 10,
2002 6:41
PM
To: support@gesn.com
Subject: Re: Poll Book
Questions
ok, I asked the wrong
question. Let me try again.
How do you create the election
specific files that need to go onto the PCC for a given vote center so that
you can encode cards for those ballot
styles?
----- Original Message -----
Sent:
Monday, June 10,
2002 10:04
PM
Subject: RE:
Poll Book Questions
[taking
this to the support list, since we are pretty close to a public release of
PCC]
n.b. It’s called a
Precinct
Control
Center, not a Poll
Book.
From:
Lesley Thompson [mailto:lesley@gesn.com]
Sent: Monday, June 10,
2002 5:36
PM
To: Dmitry Papushin
Cc: ken@gesn.com
Subject: Poll Book
Questions
What is the
procedure for creating the PCMCIA
Vote
Center
election cards from GEMS for the PollBook PCC device?
You
don’t. You create PCMCIA
memory cards with ballot station.
We are also in the process of developing a mass download device to
create multiple PCMCIA cards simultaneously. It was never really intended to be
a feature of the PCC to create memory cards. A download device needs to have a
high speed connection (read network) to GEMS, and the Jornada does not
have built in network capability.
You can use a PCMCIA network card of course, but then there is no
place to put the memory card.
How does this
differ from creating R6 encoder cards for each vote center?
This
question I don’t follow.
Ken