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Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 2:56
PM
Subject: RE: AccuVote-OS "passing
ballots"
I've
spoken to Beth Kish and she is able to reproduce the problem using a ballot
torn on one corner. It doesn't matter what side of the ballot is torn,
only the ballot orientation and the fact that a timing mark is missing.
When the ballot is fed into the reader with the tear on the right
side, trailing edge, the full ballot is scanned, then stops, leaving the
ballot hanging at the back end of the reader. She couldn't tell
if the pinch rollers have a piece of the ballot or not. The LCD
displays "Invalid Ballot - See Official", but no motor
reversal occurs. This may have to do with the exit sensor not being
covered by the ballot. Although the AV CPU knows it couldn't
process the ballot, it senses there is no ballot in the exit of the reader and
never turns on the motor to reverse the ballot. This is all speculation,
but Beth is sending me some of her ballots (fresh and torn) with which to
experiment. I should receive them tomorrow.
The
other orientations:
When
feeding the tear on right side, leading edge, the reader doesn't even turn ON.
(The input sensor can't see the ballot and the pinch roller stops it
from going in any deeper.)
When
feeding the tear on the left side, leading edge, the ballot is rejected,
the LCD displays "Invalid Ballot - See Official". (The reader doesn't
calibrate all channels on the leading edge and sends a datastream of zeros to
the AV CPU, the AV CPU rejects the ballot within the first inch
scanned.)
When
feeding the tear on the left side, trailing edge, the ballot is rejected, the
LCD displays "Invalid Ballot - See Official". (The reader times out on
the timing mark interval and doesn't receive a proper tick count. The AV
CPU rejects the ballot but has plenty of ballot underneath the pinch rollers
at the time it rejects the ballot.)
Ian
I've been informed by Don V. that Cobb County had experienced the
same, but they suspected torn ballots (stubs removed from the ballot
bottom also removed part of the timing mark.) I'll be following that
up today by contacting Beth Kish in Cobb for
details.
Perhaps more details can be gathered (by John, Don, and Steve) from
the other accounts experiencing this.
Ian
Gwinnett
County GA testifies to it as
a recurring problem. We’ve had it in Savannah also. One or two in Brevard county in
the Nov. 6th election and one in Duval in the last special
election. All are running
1.94W
-----Original
Message-----
From:
owner-support@gesn.com [mailto:owner-support@gesn.com]On Behalf Of Don
Biszmaier
Sent: Tuesday,
November 14, 2000 10:46 AM
To: support@gesn.com
Subject: Re: AccuVote-OS "passing
ballots"
Steve: I have
had it happen a few times and could find no reason for it. At the precinct
I usually suspect poll worker error. But have had it occur on rerun of the
ballots.
Don
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To: Global Sales
; Global
Support
Sent: Tuesday,
November 06, 2001 11:13 PM
Subject: AccuVote-OS
"passing ballots"
Also have report from Marin
regarding 3 precincts with significant "passed ballots", i.e., ballot
going thru
AccuVote without being
counted. Anyone else experiencing this?
Steve Knecht
Global Election
Systems
415-893-9941 office 415-893-9951
fax
415-225-6591 cell