I am reading between the lines here that
they knew/calculated the election summary as part of the manual count process.
What they could have done was to set up a
new counter group, say “manual summary”, and make that a combined
absentee. The default vote center automatically
created for that counter group will have the one combined report precinct. Manual enter the totals into that
combined precinct.
In practice that is a little hairy
election night, since you have to unset-for-election to create the combined
report precinct. Assuming they had
other totals that didn’t have to be hand counted and manually entered,
they would have to re-upload those totals after setting for election again.
Ken
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-support@dieboldes.com
[mailto:owner-support@dieboldes.com] On
Behalf Of Lesley Thompson
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002
12:58 PM
To: support@dieboldes.com
Subject: Manual Entry situation
Looking for comments as to how else
to handle this situation. Les
Tippecanoe County, IN November 5, 2002
Situation:
County printed own early voting absentee optical scan
ballots. 1700 ballots would not
read and had to be counted by hand for 82 precincts. County activists gathered volunteer
staff immediately and hand tallying occurred in a matter of hours. To produce reports, all 1700 ballots had
to be entered into GEMS for 82 precincts through the manual entry module. This process took 11 hours and was not
completed until Wednesday.
Question:
As an election night interim step, are there other
alternatives for producing election night reports that do not include manually
entering full data? Apparently the
MicroVote software had an edit function that allowed election official to
manually edit the Election Summary.
Was this similar to printing the GEMS Election Summary report to file
and editing? Other alternatives?
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lesley Koop Thompson
Customer Service Project Manager
Diebold Election Systems, Inc.
415-235-6553 (office cell)
512-413-7618 (cell)
lesley@dieboldes.com