elections, etc
Nov. 5th, 2025 01:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkAVCB processed 640 ballots. We sent out 940, so for a millage-only election that was really good turnout (historically, those run about 30%). We were unable to send preliminary results to the county, as the modem in our tabulator refused to talk to the tabulator, much less anything else. County crew told me that we were not the only ones that had that issue, and they were baffled as to why modems that had worked just fine 10 days ago were not working on Election Day. There had been no changes in the tabulators or modems since the test, so..... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
BC called me early this morning. "county says you (AVCB) didn't include a page". "erm, I'm pretty sure that we filled out every page in the pollbook. I'll go look." Went in to work and poked around. That page was not actually in the pollbook, but loose in the Precinct Kit. And we're supposed to know the difference between "Ballot Summary Page" and "Ballot Summary Page (multi-day)", when one is in the Pollbook and one is loose in the box? We included the signed BSP, but apparently they want both pages. Does it actually say that anywhere? AsIf. sigh.
(and County questioned why we had a multi-day pollbook. When we order pollbooks in September, I have no idea how many voters are going to return their ballots. I really don't like making the AVCB do more than about 1000 ballots on one day, and we send out at least 900 every election. Sometimes we send out more. I can't order both a single day and a multi-day PB, so I have to guess which one I'll need. And I guessed wrong this time.)
BC called me early this morning. "county says you (AVCB) didn't include a page". "erm, I'm pretty sure that we filled out every page in the pollbook. I'll go look." Went in to work and poked around. That page was not actually in the pollbook, but loose in the Precinct Kit. And we're supposed to know the difference between "Ballot Summary Page" and "Ballot Summary Page (multi-day)", when one is in the Pollbook and one is loose in the box? We included the signed BSP, but apparently they want both pages. Does it actually say that anywhere? AsIf. sigh.
(and County questioned why we had a multi-day pollbook. When we order pollbooks in September, I have no idea how many voters are going to return their ballots. I really don't like making the AVCB do more than about 1000 ballots on one day, and we send out at least 900 every election. Sometimes we send out more. I can't order both a single day and a multi-day PB, so I have to guess which one I'll need. And I guessed wrong this time.)
