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RE: Central Count



From: owner-support@gesn.com [mailto:owner-support@gesn.com]On Behalf Of Ian S. Piper
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 10:09 AM
Tell me how you would like us to handle a stream of 0s from perfectly good ballots, and I'll make the firmware change monday.  I think you'll find its pretty hard to determine voter intent from a stream of 0s.  Except in Florida perhaps.
 
 [Ian S. Piper] 
How about changing the reject message from "BLANK BALLOT"  to   "BALLOT NOT READ" or " INVALID BALLOT" or "READER CALIBRATION ERROR"?  Or something else that wouldn't be confused with a blank voted ballot.  Maybe then the ballot can be re-fed instead of everybody staring at the ballot with a quizzical look on their face. 
 
I requested that the message be changed to "Lucid blows me" after Pima in 11-98, but Guy wouldn't do it.  I'll resubmit.
 
Ken