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From: owner-support@dieboldes.com
[mailto:owner-support@dieboldes.com] On
Behalf Of Mark S Earley
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Subject: Multi-page ballots and
turnout percentages
How have people handled Election
Night Reporting in accounts with multi-page ballots? The Turnout percentages
are misleading as everyone knows. What have others done or expect to do in
this situation?
I’d like to hear from all interested
parties on this. Here are a few
comments of my own.
Multi-card ballots have always been weak in
many ways in GEMS. You should avoid
them at nearly all costs. Have a
look at the lengths Rob Chen went to avoid them in
This has an interesting feedback loop
however. People avoid multi-card
elections at all costs because GEMS multi-card support is weak. That makes multi-card elections very
rare. Since multi-card elections
are very rare, improving GEMS is always a low priority relative to common
pressing problems. So GEMS multu-card support remains weak. Rinse, repeat.
I am considering advising the
counties to turn off the Cards Cast feature, and keeping the Times, Totals, and
Registered Voters options turned on. This will put the county-wide races near
the beginning of the reports, giving an accurate appraisal of the numbers of
voters. This will work well on the Summary Reports where the Times Voted for
each race gives a percentage.
Right. You have reinvented
the standard operating procedure. A
jurisdiction-wide race will always give you the numbers they want.
The SOVC Report does not have a
comparable percentage stat on it within the races. Most users are used to
the SOVC showing the Turnout percentage in the third column, and turning this
feature off will likely upset them and the reporters they serve.
Hmmm, indeed. SOVC should show the
percent as well. I will create a
new RCR to that effect and get this assigned.
One workaround is to export the
precinct results, import into Excel, massage the formatting and use the
times counted for countywide races as the turnout. For one county
this will be manageable. For many counties and remote support, this will
be problematic.
Tab is working on fixing the cards cast
problem.
Mark Earley
850 422-2100 -
office/fax
850 322-3226 –
cell
Ken