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# RE: Old database files

- To: <support@dieboldes.com>
- Subject: RE: Old database files
- From: "Steve Knecht" <stevek@dieboldes.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 09:24:36 -0700
- Importance: Normal
- In-reply-to: <LGEBJLEPICBGOLMNFIKCKEONCCAA.spdiebold@earthlink.net>

    Susan,

    I would leave these items off the form.  We may not like their answers if we
    are doing the Spectrum printing.  Other printers OK.

    Do your laws require a certain size and weight of paper?
    Do your laws require colored paper?

    -----Original Message-----
    From: owner-support@gesn.com [mailto:owner-support@gesn.com]On Behalf Of
    Sue Page
    Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 4:26 AM
    To: support@dieboldes.com
    Subject: RE: Old database files

    Add a published catalog to Steve's request for an election database.

    I would also like to suggest that we create a master form for programming.
    It should ask all possible questions that are asked to program the election.

    Examples (just a few - to give you a flavor for how detailed it should be)
    On the Touch screen:
    # of columns
    Font size of header
    Font for header
    Font size of "vote for"
    Font size of candidate
    Who will be responsible for proofing? (We must identify the decision maker)
    What is the target date for completion?
    What is the "drop dead" date according to the law?
    What is the date of the election?
    Will you provide wording for the instructions page, or do you want Diebold's
    assistance in developing this page?

    OS
    When and where do you count your absentee ballots?
    Do your laws require a certain size and weight of paper?
    Do your laws require colored paper?
    Will you provide Voter Instructions that are proofed in advance, or do you
    want Diebold's assistance in creating voter instructions?

    Audio:
    Male or female voice?
    Will you provide the pronunciations in advance?
    Who will be responsible for proofing the audio?
    Do they know how to proof wav files?
    Do they have the ability to proof wav files?
    Can they download files from an ftp site?

    Help the Project Managers with a form that asks all the questions up front.
    We will walk the customers through all the decision points, and return to
    you with a complete, signed document.  This will force the customers to
    think of the questions in advance, and provide evidence that they are
    responsible for reworks.

    Sue

    -----Original Message-----
    From: owner-support@gesn.com [mailto:owner-support@gesn.com]On Behalf Of
    Steve Knecht
    Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 2:18 AM
    To: support@dieboldes.com
    Subject: Old database files

    To whom it may concern,

    Would it be possible to set up a system of election databases, such that
    items such as databases used for ballot printing, audio files, etc. could be
    saved for later retrieval, so we could re-create election environments 2
    months, 6 months, even a year later.  I know it would take organization and
    disk space, but it seems feasible.  There have been several instances of
    late, where we could not reprint ballots (for central count testing) because
    we no longer had, or could find the ballot database.  Where we could not
    find the GEMS databases so we could do central count for the old ballots
    that we found in our garage, because we could find the old database to
    create new ballots, again (for central count testing), or today where we
    could not find audio files so we could try to re-edit sound files which had
    different volume settings, etc.

    There should be a central depository of files that we can go back to.  An
    alternative is to find a working demo for all our products, but I dropped
    that illusion many years ago.  I'll settle for being able to find old files
    and not having to re-create the wheel for each demo we do.  (Old PCM audio
    files today would have helped us for our Santa Clara demonstration ($20M),
    so that we don't go down there with two very different volume levels of
    audio for instructions vs. the ballot info for vibs.

    In the real world,

    Steve

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