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DRE protected counter including election resets
- To: <rcr@dieboldes.com>
 
- Subject: DRE protected counter including election resets
 
- From: "Ken Clark" <ken@dieboldes.com>
 
- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 14:51:31 -0800
 
- Importance: Normal
 
Here is a good one 
for you...
 
The ballot station 
currently has a "protected counter" that is the total number of ballots ever 
cast on the unit.  It advances by one each time a ballot is 
cast.
 
Louisiana wants the 
protected counter to also advance, by one, each time the unit is 
"re-set".  What re-set means appears up for interpretation, but for our 
purposes we'll use set-for-election.  As an illustration, say 
the protected counter is 100 at the beginning of election day.  
150 votes are cast during that election.  At the end of the election, 
the protected counter will be 250.  Months go by and they have another 
election.  At the start of the election, they want the protected 
counter to read 251 before any votes are cast.  Strange but 
true.
 
The implementation 
is another one-liner:  just bump the protected counter at 
set-for-election.  The catch of course is that not everyone will want the 
system to work this way.  I'll cut a one-off release for the Louisiana 
certification.  If we end up getting the bid, we can talk about a setup 
option to turn it on and off.
 
Ken