Problems:
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Powering the AccuVote
off at the end of Election Mode and on again in order to bring it into
Post-Election Mode causes 'Print Election Results Report' to be erroneously
displayed before 'Send Results by Telephone', followed by 'Send Results
by Direct Mode' and 'Print Election Results Report' again. 'Send
Results by Telephone' subsequently correctly appears at the beginning of
the Post-Election Mode prompt cycle.
It sounds like it is operating as designed - please confirm. From
the release notes for 1.94r released 98-6-23:
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Offer to reprint the election results report if the report wasn't confirmed
before turning the Accu-Vote off after the ender card in election mode.
Since this report is "required", we require the operator to "confirm" that
the report printed successfully by pressing NO to the prompt: "NEED ANOTHER
PRINTOUT?". If not confirmed, the operator is prompted with "REPRINT ELECTION
RESULTS REPORT?" upon entering the post-election mode. Responding with
NO is treated as confirmation that the report has been printed successfully.
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A newly programmed memory card is taken
into Supervisor Functions in Pre-Election Mode, memory card duplication
requested and the AccuVote powered off when the 'Insert Blank Memory Card'
prompt is displayed. After powering the unit on the long Zero Totals
report is printed with 'Copies Made' erroneously set to 1
The "Copies Made" counter is incremented at the time that you select to
duplicate the card. If you fail to complete the duplication, there
is no way for the Accu-Vote to determine that that is the case since either
you remove the memory card being duplicated or power off the Accu-Vote.
In order to guarantee that the count is correct, we would require either
that the original memory card be re-inserted after the duplication is complete
without powering off the Accu-Vote or that we have 2 memory card slots
and require that the original memory card remain installed throughout the
process. In short, the copies count is really a count of duplications
initiated.
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this is probably of little importance,
but pressing both the YES and NO buttons causes overvoted and blank voted
ballots to be returned with the corresponding messages - I seem to recall
in testing some 1.94x firmware that the override effect would persist when
pressing both YES and NO
Sorry but I don't have the same recollection (not that that means much!)
We use pressing the YES and NO buttons simultaneously as the "secret" requirement
for accepting the Ender Card. If we were to accept the same for reject
overrides, then people that should be able to do overrides but should not
be able to accept Ender Cards would learn that YES+NO does it all.
Admittedly this kind of secret is very weak and is as easily forgotten
by those who should know as anybody but it beats having to enter Supervisor
Mode.
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after downloading a memory card, the Unvoted
and Fully Voted Ballot Tests are performed, then the Zero Totals report
printed and ballots fed in Count Test - the Audit report subsequently indicates
that a Download Zero report has been printed (as opposed to a Test Zero
report)
I'll look into this. Anybody worried about getting this into the
upcoming 1.95d/1.94w releases? It could be in the Accu-Basic reports
themselves.
Guy
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Guy Lancaster <glanca@gesn.com>
Global Election Systems Inc., Victoria, B.C., Canada
Phone: (250)995-8627
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