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# RE: Florida "Audio Ballot" Standards

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- Subject: RE: Florida "Audio Ballot" Standards
- From: "Tyler Lincks" <tyler@gesn.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 15:39:22 -0500
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- In-reply-to: <PPECJKNKLDJLKJPKPPIOOEMIDBAA.ken@gesn.com>

I re-iterate my original statement: The only race types Florida ever uses are "candidate" and "question". Notice I did not include "recall", "preference" or "shadow". It's part of that wonderfully simple Florida election environment that Frank rails against every chance he gets. I think he's just jealous.
As regards the voter selecting a candidate before listening to all of the candidates, I thought we had discussed and addressed that over a year ago and thus didn't think it was pertient to the present discussion. I guess I haven't been keeping up with things. My bad.
Another flag in GEMS? Sure, y'all go ahead and knock yourselves out.
Tyler

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-support@gesn.com [mailto:owner-support@gesn.com]On Behalf Of Ken Clark
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 3:10 PM
> To: support@gesn.com
> Subject: RE: Florida "Audio Ballot" Standards
> You're n ot being obtuse at all.
> I don't know whether Florida has recall or not, but that is another case. The fundamental case however is when they vote for the first candidate in a ten candidate vote-for one race. The other nine candidates are no longer "available" to vote-for. In the visual world, we turn off their vote boxes.
> Right now for VIBS we play these candidates for the voter just so they know who they missed out on voting, but the voter can't actually do anything with these candidates. This is tedious if they know who they wanted to vote for (presumably the normal case), and it is especially tedious when they don't care about the race at all.
> Hence the need for a flag. I suspect most right-thinking jurisdictions will want to skip the disabled candidates. Florida if they stick to this requirement will have to let them play.
> Ken

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-support@gesn.com [mailto:owner-support@gesn.com]On Behalf Of Tyler Lincks
> > Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 1:12 PM
> > To: support@gesn.com
> > Subject: RE: Florida "Audio Ballot" Standards
> > Florida does not have straight party voting. The only race types Florida ever uses are "candidate" and "question". Pardon me for being obtuse, but in what situation would a Florida voter not know what candidates would have been available to them in the first place?

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