* *** 2016_MARCH_ELECTION_FAQ_INPUT TXT - 4 Feb 2016 01:24:26 - JKNAUTH The 2/3/16 CJ class did not provide a very good opportunity to have many detailed questions asked and answered. Below is a list including some I would like to see answered in the FAQ you plan to put on the BOE PO website. A concern I have as a Chief Judge is that I am supposed to monitor my officials to make sure they are doing things properly. That won't be easy if I don't know what proper is. In the class we were told that details would be in the manual, but the questions below are not answered by the manual or the QGs. I was later told that the Basic Class would provide the details, but I and other CJs won't be attending the Basic Class (or Help Table class). Not all the questions are related to identification, so the supplemental Identification document you have planned doesn't sound like the complete answer. 1) Why must "incoming precinct transfer" voters now first be sent to the Registration Table instead of being sent directly to the Help Table as in the past? The current documentation says nothing about the rationale and does not adequately describe the required processing. There is zero for this in the RT part of the manual. If you try to run it thru the latest RT QG, note that the ATV cannot be removed from the pollbook since the voter brought the ATV with him. Also the Help Referral form has no "Incoming Precinct Transfer" checkbox, so sending that form to the HT seems useless, and since there will be no provisional envelope, what would the HT official do with such a form after sending the voter to the BT? Does all this mean, no HR form for this case vs. what the QG implies? 2) Why is HAVA ID acceptable at curbside vs. requiring a 2016 Photo ID? 3) Do you have any comments on the following proposal for how a driver license expiration check could be done for the 3/15/16 election? I think it makes the processing clearer by using addition rather than the SBOE's subtraction. In fact the first line is actually covered by the second line, but the first line could be kept since it will be by far the normal case. The same processing would be used for a DMV Identification Card, of course. License expires on or after 3/15/16? ------------> OK (unexpired) License expired on or after 3/15/12? ------------> OK (4-year chk) License expired before 3/15/12, then Add 70 to the voter's birthdate to get 70th_bday 70th_bday on or before expiration date? ------> OK (70-year chk) Otherwise ------------------------------------> NOT A VALID ID Some general questions on birthdates for DL/IC checking: When using a voter's birthdate, you could get it from the DL/IC or from the pollbook (by some head twisting). They should match. What if they don't? Which should be used? If it is noticed that they don't match, does that mean the BOE Help Line should be called? I have never seen anywhere the requirement to check for such a mismatch. 4) Why is the Help Referral form required to handle simple things like sending a "V" voter to the Help Table? Just checking a box on the ATV, as it used to be, would seem to be much simpler than having to fill out a bunch of fields in the new form. Is the rest of the HR form data (VRN, worker name, etc.) of new importance so it must now be collected vs. the old ATV checkmarks? Nevertheless, it seems the decision has been made and much documentation is now in place with the HR form and reduced ATV, so I guess it is what it is. 5) What are the right documents to use? Why does the BOE PO website not provide better guidance on this? The "NC Voting Site Station Guide" document has no specific revision date other than "Revised 2015". It has recently been updated (an altered hardcopy was sent to CJs and was later posted on the BOE PO website), but the updated document still says only "Revised 2015". There is much questionable material in the posted Station Guide. The document does not relate well to the Wake County election day pollbook system. As a result, the Wake BOE and SBOE documents and videos are now way out of sync. See my detailed comments in http://jgkhome.name/WakeBOE/2016_Comments_on_Station_Guide.txt Hopefully the lack of stability will soon get resolved (not much time is left). But in the meantime classes have started and students there are being told specifically to look at material on the BOE PO website, but not which material. Certainly confusion and/or distrust will result if some of this is looked at without a little guidance to say which is good and which still needs a lot of work, or should just be ignored (unless you are curious how Currituck County elections are now supposed to work). 6) Will the March pollbooks be printed with no letter splitting and with fewer ATVs per pollbook (more pollbooks per precinct)? Last year I was told this sort of thing had been discussed with the printer and the plan was to do it this year. 7) An "electronic" form of HAVA ID is allowed. Does that mean it could be displayed to the precinct official on something like a smart phone? Or does it mean only that it could be a hardcopy printed from some web page or PDF file vs. the original document? 8) Will you publish a larger errata document than what is now on your website? See my http://jgkhome.name/WakeBOE/2016_Documentation_Comments_for_March_Primary_2016-01-23.txt comments file, which also has more details on some of the above questions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (The following questions aren't really FAQ material, but are of interest to me. I have asked some of them before, but not gotten an answer.) 1) What happened to the PDF explaining the new district elections for Wake County commissioners and Board of Education members? The link was removed from the BOE PO website a week or two ago, but I saw a big poster form of it hanging on the classroom wall, so it must still be considered valid by someone in the BOE. I thought it was good on the website. 2) Is replacement of the M100 in the works? Over the last couple of cycles, the BOE documentation for precinct officials has been replacing M100" with "Tabulator". If new hardware is being considered, be sure to consider the hardware requirements I have previously documented. 3) From the 11/3/15 election: Is there any information about who started the false rumor that the 19-10 polling site had closed early? 4) From the 11/3/15 election: Is there any information about what caused the 19-09 pollbook printing errors? Jeff Knauth