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# Fwd: Manually typeset ballots

- To: support@gesn.com
- Subject: Fwd: Manually typeset ballots
- From: SKGLOBAL@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 00:37:42 EST

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> - To: tiredale@gesn.com
> - Subject: Re: Manually typeset ballots
> - From: SKGLOBAL@aol.com
> - Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 00:29:08 EST

>     In a message dated 3/17/99 9:11:41 AM Pacific Standard Time, tiredale@gesn.com
>     writes:

>     << GEMS doesn't have any facilities for this currently.  The two obvious
>     questions are
>              1.. Do we want to support this?
>      This would be a nice feature to have since it would allow us to tell
>     customers who have weird layouts that they can manually lay the ballots out,
>     BUT I would not suggest doing it until we get some very solid demand from the
>     support and or sales group   >>

>     I would ask the question as follows: in New York and Conn., do the printers
>     now "typeset" the artwork?  In other words, are the layouts so weird that no
>     one has automated, and therefore there is little expectation of automation.
>     This would be to good to hope for I'm sure.  But if so, perhaps GEMS could
>     simply allow you to lay out the oval positions without the rest of the ballot
>     artwork and link the oval to the race/candidate position in some manner.  What
>     is the history behind the GRID system?  Lever Machines?  Any chance of getting
>     changes made by doing presentation to SOS offices to show them benefits of the
>     way we do this?  I know I'm probably way out of touch with this, but I'd like
>     to hear from the sales side what the background to this is.

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