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# Re: Landscape Ballots - Invalid Ballot

- To: "Ken Clark" <ken@dieboldes.com>, "Request for Change" <rcr@dieboldes.com>
- Subject: Re: Landscape Ballots - Invalid Ballot
- From: "Greg Forsythe" <gfglobal@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 12:37:33 -0500
- Organization: Global Election Systems, Inc
- References: <NCBBIGGNCKBDKCCGPEOAOELCDDAA.ken@dieboldes.com>

The 11 x 17 printout of an 11" ballot shows crop marks, fold marks, etc. A portrait printout of the 11 x 17 proof will have text on both the front and the back. The bottom of the portrait ballot will have FRONT Card Seq# 1 and on the BACK Card Seq# 1. Using these clues, the printer will have the FRONT and BACK matched with the ballot identifiers on the bottom.
Looking at an 11x17 landscape ballot proof the ballot identifiers are on the right side of the card, both FRONT and BACK. The only way to have the text correct, as in a dollar bill, would be to reverse the FRONT and BACK. Easy to make the mistake. You mentioned you are reversing the image.
My suggestion is to print "TOP of BALLOT" above the crop (cut) marks in portrait mode, and perhaps up arrows. In a landscape ballot, "TOP of BALLOT" would appear on its side on the left side (the 8 1/2 width) of the ballot, the up arrow would be at the top of the ballot (the length) pointing to the left. Another arrow could be at the bottom, again pointing to the left.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ken Clark
> To: Request for Change
> Sent: February 14, 2000 11:59 AM
> Subject: RE: Landscape Ballots - Invalid Ballot

> > Landscape Ballots
> > Currently, the only text on the full printing template is at the bottom indicating front and back with Id"s. Easily understood by the printer in portrait mode.
> > My suggestion is to have TOP and BOTTOM in the appropriate places and maybe arrows indicating "this side up".

> Can you elaborate on "appropriate"? What (exactly) do you want drawn and where?

> > In this version the printed ballot does not match the programmed voting positions.

> This is (a) not an rcr, and (b) fixed.

> > The amount of white space from the question candidate and the bottom line is different than the white space for the last race candidate. The candidate bottom line is very (too) close to the vertical oval.

> You use the "shift box vert" option to move the bottom box line away from the oval. I am looking into why your questions have the strange 1/4" gap and will follow up to support or bugtrack.
> Ken

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