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# RE: BS Audit Log Upload - 22 month archiving

- To: <rcr@dieboldes.com>
- Subject: RE: BS Audit Log Upload - 22 month archiving
- From: "Ken Clark" <ken@dieboldes.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:52:45 -0700
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- In-Reply-To: <008001c15d7a$ebe60c40$0ad8fc9e@default>

Another oldie but a goodie. Everything in that post still bothers me two years later. But the last paragraph also stands, and this is the feedback that was requested I guess.
Couple of additional comments. This is going to very seriously bloat the GEMS database. Say you have 3000 machines, and each machine's log file is only 50k. That is 150 megabytes. Don't mail that one to the bugtrack list. It is also going to increase (potentially double) the upload time for each vote center.
As I said in the previous post, this isn't technically that hard to do. It isn't a trivial amount of work either though. We'll need a new upload protocol, a new table in GEMS, and a new GEMS dialog to view/print the logs. That means GEMS 1.19 earliest.
Ken

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rcr@dieboldes.com [mailto:owner-rcr@dieboldes.com]On Behalf Of Steve Knecht
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 10:32 AM
> To: rcr@dieboldes.com
> Subject: BS Audit Log Upload - 22 month archiving
> Background:
> Presently there are two audit log views in the ballot station software (standard and accumulator). Federal law requires ballots to be kept for 22 months for state/federal elections. We upload to GEMS each ballot, and I'm assuming we are able to back these images up as part of the GEMS backup process in some way. (Is this true?) However, we need to back up the audit logs as well, vs. printing out each audit log after the election on an AccuVote-TS.
> Request:
> Provide an "audit log" upload process for the PCMCIA card which would look at the machine ID and automatically create a filename for the adt file by machine. These files could then be backed up, along with the GEMS backup, and stored for 22 months. This would not be part of the election night upload, but would be part of the canvass process to meet the 22 month law.
> Steve Knecht
> Global Election Systems
> 415-893-9941 office 415-893-9951 fax
> 415-225-6591 cell

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