FWIW, I told my students that the reason it said “clear” after you just
created the card was to provide the option to clear the just encoded card in
case the wrong ballot choice was encoded. If you programmed the card correctly,
then just remove it. Everyone seemed very content with that.
Mark
Earley
850 422-2100 - office/fax
850 322-3226 - cell
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Message-----
From: owner-support@gesn.com
[mailto:owner-support@gesn.com]On Behalf Of Tari
Runyan
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 9:16
PM
To: support@dieboldes.com
Subject: Re: new encoder with
1.1.3
what
about both - for nice symmetry of course
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Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002
5:15 PM
Subject: RE:
new encoder with 1.1.3
It has been suggested
before, but got bogged down in the details. Question is, if we for the user to remove the card after a
create operation, do we also do likewise when clearing cards. That always appears less
compelling. If we do it with
create but not with clear, then we loose the nice symmetry we have right now.
Ken
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From: owner-support@gesn.com
[mailto:owner-support@gesn.com] On Behalf Of Tari
Runyan
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 3:41
PM
To: support@dieboldes.com
Subject: Re: new encoder with
1.1.3
In an ideal world and in an ideal training enivironment we should
have the "Encoder" (GA) say "DONE" or
"REMOVE" once the card is created -
my students got confused at the "Create?"
"Clear?" and counldn't tell if the card was ready to vote or not -
Ga has very gracious people and the Peaches are awesome
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Sent:
Tuesday, July 09, 2002 4:02 PM
Subject: new encoder with 1.1.3
I have found the following when using the new "Diebold Voter
Card Encoder" with 1.1.3 during training in
Columbus, GA.
From the encoder I created the following "voter cards";
("M") magnified ballot, ("VM") visual magnified, and
("VH") visual hidden
The units were set in election mode and the cards were voted then
re-inserted to clear and program again.
When you re-insert the ("M") voter card the display on
the encoder reads M "create"
When you re-insert the ("VM") voter card the display on
the encoder reads VM "create"
When you re-insert the ("VH") voter card the display on
the encoder reads VH "clear"
Correct me if I am wrong, but when you re-insert the card for
re-programming it should simply say "clear", then you select
"yes", then it should say "create", it should not have the
codes,(M, VM, VH) there at all. The way it is now, you can NOT clear the
voter card, if you have selected one of the codes. You can create a new card as
long as you are going to use one of the codes, i.e., "M",
"VM", "VH".
This was confusing for my students, in that once they created a
card with one of the codes, they could not re-use that card as a regular voter
card, meaning not able to access a regular ballot.
Pleas let me know if I need to post this to the bugtrack once it
is back in action.
Rodney D. Turner
214-642-6289