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# Re: 1.94w Roms - Regional Upload

- To: rcr@dieboldes.com
- Subject: Re: 1.94w Roms - Regional Upload
- From: Guy Lancaster <glanca@dieboldes.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 11:48:54 -0500
- Organization: Global Election Systems Inc.
- References: <NCBBIGGNCKBDKCCGPEOACEGFCPAA.ken@dieboldes.com> <006601bf1f0d$bfc41d80$1404a8c0@dieboldes.com>

    I think that a 30 second timeout can work.  For regional
    uploads, if they want to keep the line open, remove the
    memory card within 30 seconds of a successful upload.  At
    that point they have taken responsibility for releasing the
    line by pressing the NO button or turning the Accu-Vote off.

    Having GEMS timeout the connection after 30 seconds may be
    okay for now but the regional upload site may have good
    reason to want to hold the line open longer than that.  I
    can put the timeout in future firmware releases to give them
    back this control.  I know you hate this Ken but could we
    make this timeout on GEMS configurable?

    Steve, we considered using an Accu-Vote setup option but
    this has other problems.  Ideally we would save setup
    options in non-volatile memory in the Accu-Vote (like a PC)
    so that you could set up a unit in a particular way and
    track it accordingly.  However the AV has no non-volatile
    memory so we end up saving the setup options on the memory
    card.  You can override the settings on an Accu-Vote without
    saving them but they are lost when the Accu-Vote is turned
    off.  This makes it difficult to have the regional upload
    AVs behave differently than the polling site AVs.

               Guy

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