-----Original Message-----
From:
Guy Lancaster <glanca@gesn.com>
To: Support
<support@gesn.com>
Date:
Wednesday, May 12, 1999 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: GEMS
recount
Nel, change the doc to use
this new report. It worth noting somewhere in this doc the reason
why they have to go through all the trouble to find out what
cards need recounting. It used to be that the AccuVote did not
like cards with no races on it (as is the case when the recount race is
not on a card of a vote center). Download would give an out of
sync message I believe. This meant that any cards without the
recount race would need to be sifted out of the stack of cards for a
vote center. I believe this has been fixed somewhere in the 1.94
series. Guy, please confirm this, and let us know what rev.
Certainly, central count will accept these
cards.
I too vaguely
remember a minor fix but the original change to support cards without races
was made in 1.91c released April 7/94. I would expect all 1.94
releases in use to handle this.
The larger problem is that the download protocol requires at least
one of every type of data except for voting positions. That means that
although you could have a card with no races (for recount purposes), you
cannot have a vote center with no races or you'll get the Out Of Sync error
on download.
Remember that only
vote centers will be downloaded that are attached to recount races as
found on the Races With Vote Centers report so this should not be a
problem. Every vote center downloaded will contain at least (or
only) the recount races. Nel
Guy
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Guy Lancaster <glanca@gesn.com>
Global Election
Systems Inc., Victoria, B.C., Canada
Phone: (250)995-8627