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# Deletion of Registered write-in candidates with counts causes problem

- To: "bugtrack" <bugtrack@dieboldes.com>
- Subject: Deletion of Registered write-in candidates with counts causes problem
- From: "Whitman Lee" <whitman@dieboldes.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:14:48 -0700

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Ken Clark" <ken@dieboldes.com>
    To: <devel@dieboldes.com>
    Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 16:38
    Subject: RE: Deletion of Registered write-in candidates

    > Good catch, I had forgot about that issue.  It is really hard to get
    > this right.  You can't just "check for zero counters" because someone
    > sitting at the theoretical bank of manual entry terminals down the hall
    > might be just about to post counters for that registered write-in.
    >
    > And if there are counters, then what?
    >
    > One solution is to create a poster job to clear counters for a given
    > candidate.  Post that job when they delete the registered write-in.  If
    > they are set-for-election, we might give the user a head's up that any
    > results will get clobbered.  The difficult part here is that you have to
    > update the race undervote and blank stats, but you don't actually have
    > enough information to do that correctly.
    >
    > What GEMS needs is a "write-in processing" subsystem to deal with all of
    > this.  This is not a trivial problem at all.
    >
    > Ken
    >
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: owner-devel@dieboldes.com [mailto:owner-devel@dieboldes.com] On Behalf Of
    > Talbot Iredale
    > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 1:46 PM
    > To: devel
    > Subject: Deletion of Registered write-in candidates
    >
    >
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: <whitman@sinbad.dieboldes.com>
    > To: <cvsactivity@dieboldes.com>
    > Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 2:00 PM
    > Subject: CVS Update: GEMS
    >
    >
    > > CVSROOT: /home/cvs
    > > Module name: GEMS
    > > Repository: ./
    > > Changes by: whitman@sinbad.dieboldes.com.(none) 02/04/29 14:00:00
    > >
    > > Modified files:
    > > ./: Tag: v1-18-stable RaceEditor.cpp
    > >
    > > Log message:
    > > Allow deletion of Registered-Writein candidates after Cards-Layed-Out.
    > > The reason we did not allow registered write-ins to be deleted was that
    they
    > > may have counts associated with this.  As a minimum we need to check
    there
    > > are no counts for the registered write-in candidate.  To be completely
    save
    > > we need to ensure there are no poster jobs queued or being posted also.
    > >
    > > Tab

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