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Hi
folks, we don't really know everthing that happened in Columbus GA, so
don't panic over what you may perceive to be a flaw in the AVOS system. The AVOS
was used for absentee tabulation only, not for voting at a polls. If there were
votes on the AVOS from testing, then the county official in charge should have
investigated why there the system didn't print a zero tape. This county had a
mess with their absentee ballots. They had two databases, one for TS and one for
OS because someone on the county end (we think) regenerated ballots after
they were printed and several positions changed. We found this in L&A when
the AVOS ballots would not read. There were other problems there unrelated to
the system, so no one including folks for the Secretary of State's office know
what really happened. However, we do know that they didn't know going into
counting the ballots how many they expected to count (DUH!) so they would know
if the vote counts were correct in the end. The election supervisor
left for vacation shortly after certifying the election and had no clue
that anything was wrong with their results until the Secretary of State's office
contacted her office to let them know their vote totals were not correct - based
on paperwork submitted with the election returns. Don't believe everthing you
read in the newspaper. As a former Global customer, I never had a problem with
the AVOS "retaining" votes and then "mysteriously" showing in the vote count.
This situation was purely human error. Too bad it made it look like our product
was at fault.
Norma
Lyons
Project Manager]
Georgia Team
(404)
581-3514
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