Clarification of Duval’s phone line install: one line per precinct; double
the normal # of lines at the GEMS server location to receive the calls from the
precincts.
Mark
Earley
850 422-2100 - office/fax
850 322-3226 - cell
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From: owner-support@gesn.com
[mailto:owner-support@gesn.com]On Behalf Of Mark
S Earley
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 8:01
PM
To: support@gesn.com
Subject: RE: OS and TS upload
Thanks Ken. I agree that this would be a logistical
and support nightmare. I do not look forward to it, but many counties in
Florida (the F word again) are expecting to have one AVOS and AVTS per precinct
due to ADA requirements. I think that it has already been offered to customers
as a possibility.
Florida has a rule taking effect “1 Year after
funding”, whenever that is, which will require each county to have full ADA
voting system capability in each precinct. The expected
target for this rule is the Fall 2004 elections. In anticipation of this, a few
counties (Volusia comes to mind) have already placed orders for 1 AVTS unit per
precinct to work in conjunction with their AVOS. Duval County (Jacksonville FL)
has installed enough phone lines (not all activated yet) to support
simultaneous dial-ins by AVOS and AVTS units in 275 precincts.
Perhaps the sales guys can get a handle on what
pricing structure would bring a profit on this setup and make it a part of
their presentations. The fact that most of the customers looking to go this
route already have a large investment in GEMS and AVOS (I assume) might make
them amenable to a higher pricing structure for the AVTS than someone looking
to buy AVTS only.
Mark
Earley
850 422-2100 -
office/fax
850 322-3226 - cell
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From: owner-support@gesn.com
[mailto:owner-support@gesn.com]On Behalf Of Ken
Clark
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 2:12
PM
To: support@gesn.com
Subject: RE: OS and TS upload
Don,
there are no “present procedures” on this as of yet, since I don’t think anyone
has done this in anything but a small test capacity yet.
Mark,
your setup will indeed work. Hats
off for intuiting the process.
We of
course thought about this possibility the day we started work on AVTS
integration with GEMS several years ago.
We had kinda hoped (faintly) that no one would be actually crazy enough
to do it though. Right now the
vote center dialog allows you to specify the count method for a vote center,
and the number of memory cards.
What we would need to do to do this right is to allow the user to
specify for the vote center not a single count method, but multiple count
methods. Our data structures don’t
support this at the moment, so it is not a trivial change unfortunately. Mark’s setup will have to suffice for
the interim.
Could
one or both of you write up some background on why they want to do this? My main worry is that we can’t possibly
make enough money supporting such a complicated configuration. It is basically the worst of both
worlds. Don’t get me wrong, GEMS
can do it. I just wonder out loud
whether this is even something we want to be offering customers. I guess this is an executive committee
thing to answer.
Ken
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From: owner-support@gesn.com
[mailto:owner-support@gesn.com] On Behalf Of Mark
S Earley
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002
12:32 PM
To: support@gesn.com
Subject: RE: OS and TS upload
I need clarification on this also, as most of the
Florida counties eventually want one TS and one OS in each precinct. My
understanding was that you would create an AVOS memory card and an AVTS memory
card for each report precinct – the hard part is doing that. See attached test database for my attempt
at this.
While the method was not intuitive, I think I managed
to build something that would work by making a separate Counter Group (each with
its own Vote Center Type) for the OS precinct machines and the TS precinct
machines. My question is would the results from each set of machines (OS and
TS) add correctly for each of the reporting precincts?
Also, my understanding is that you would need one set
of modem ports for AVOS upload and one set of modem ports for AVTS upload. Each
set of ports would have its own rollover phone number. The AVTS ports would
also be configured for RAS.
Is this the way to do it?
All of this is just speculation based upon trial and
error this past hour. I have not actually downloaded or uploaded any cards or
results.
Mark
Earley
850 422-2100 -
office/fax
850 322-3226 - cell
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From: owner-support@gesn.com
[mailto:owner-support@gesn.com]On Behalf Of Don
Bizmaier
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002
2:21 PM
To: support@gesn.com
Subject: OS and TS upload
Can
anyone tell me what the present procedures are for uploading results when both
OS and TS units are used? I have heard both ways - that they can upload at the
same time and that they cannot. If they cannot it is going to be a real problem
as juridiction start to use at least one TS in each polling place, which is
what many OS customers are looking to do in the future.
Thanks:
Don
Donald
W. Biszmaier
Support Services Specialist
Diebold Election Systems, Inc.
7717 Greenwood Rd.
Louisville, Ky. 40258
Office 502-244-8645
Cell 502-314-6936
Fax 502-254-7835