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I think the Lucid reader software was intended to deal with
the "shadow" associated with the "V" in a folded ballots. All the
issues I am dealing with in this thread are associated with the
physical properties associated with friction as a ballot that has increased
thickness at a number of points such that it causes "timing" issues in reading
the various id, timing, and diagnostic marks on a ballot.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 2:08
PM
Subject: RE: Central Count Reader
Testing
- The "smoothing" process greatly affects the ballots going
thru the units smoothly. The folks in Santa Barbara have accepted
this process and seem ok with it. The "low staffing" sites, such as
Humboldt, bristle at the thought of having to manually smooth out the fold
on each ballot. But they may not have a choice.
This
used to be standard operating procedure with the inferred
readers. Some of the old guard might even remember Stewart
Seidel's Accu-Iron. Seems to me this was one
of issues the Lucid readers were supposed to
fix...
Ken
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