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# RE: Voter Group Header assignment for generation of separate ballots

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- Subject: RE: Voter Group Header assignment for generation of separate ballots
- From: "Ken Clark" <ken@dieboldes.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 13:39:27 -0600
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> From: Ken Clark [mailto:ken@dieboldes.com]
> Gwinnett County, Georgia would like to have seperate headers on their absentees although their races are identical. This should be possible with voter group specific headers, but isn't working.

Okay, I have reviewed this and it appears that GEMS unfortunately does not handle (and has not ever)the above case. Significant headers can be used to put a header on only the democratic ballot, but they cannot be used to force a democratic ballot when there are no democratic races.
For 1.11 at least, the best I can offer is a work around. Create a race with no candidates as a psudo significant header. This race will differentiate the ballots for GEMS. This race can be the "Official Ballot" header, or something more inert like a seperator with actual significant headers in turn attached to it.
What exactly is the difference between the absentee and polling header in Gwinnett anyway? If it is something simple like displaying "Official" instead of "Absentee", we might be able to handle this with an @vgroup macro in the same spirit as the @precinct macro, without a major GEMS upgrade.
Ken

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