* *** BOE_WISH_LIST TXT - 19 Mar 2024  17:12:12 - JGKNAUTH


Below is a summary of some comments and suggestions I have often made in
the past, but which still remain open.  I wanted to list them here to
make them easier to find if and when I become unavailable to keep
bugging the WCBOE about them.  Maybe someday circumstances will change,
allowing these items to be reconsidered.  To shorten this, I have
removed many prior comments that tracked the history of some of these
items.


FORMS/DOCUMENTS
===============

1) 3/18/24:  Put revision dates on *ALL* forms and documents, printed
   and online, and keep them up-to-date whenever a change is made.  Much
   progress has been made, but sometimes the revision dates are not
   updated after a change has been made.  Also, some things still lack
   revision dates, e.g., the Provisional Envelope, the Media Guide, and
   the PO website FAQs file (revision dates are needed for the FAQs file
   as a whole and for each changed entry).

2) 3/19/24:  Display voter registration number (VRN) using spaces,
   similar to a credit card number: #### #### ####.  Internally, in the
   database, it can be kept in the compressed format, but in forms (for
   both output and input) and on computer displays it should be spaced
   to ease readability/entry.  I'm happy that at least VAST has now
   implemented this.  The VRN still appears unspaced in pollbooks and on
   the Absentee lists.

3) 3/19/24:  Send me draft documents to review BEFORE they are sent to
   the printer (if possible).  Otherwise errors I catch are much harder
   to correct.  At least publish FAQs or errata files for any
   significant errors that have been pointed out.

4) 3/19/24:  Provide better documentation about how *Wake County*
   precinct officials should deal with Observers.  The 2024.v.1 NCSBE
   document (called "Observer Guide" on the PO website) has removed any
   mention of voter lists.  That's good; the old Guide implied we would
   provide voter lists to Observers.  We don't in Wake County.

   The Observers section of the FAQs is good, but is probably ephemeral.
   That information should be in the Observer Guide document, at least
   in a Wake County appendix since it is not covered by the current
   NCSBE document.


PRECINCT OFFICIALS WEBSITE
======== ========= =======

1) On the Training Resources page, put the document's last revision date
   in front of each link.  (See how I now do it for my files on
   http://jgkhome.name/WakeBOE/WakeBOE_TOC.htm.)  That would make it
   easier to see when a change has been made to a document without
   having to open it first.  For videos there is currently no revision
   date shown anywhere; putting one before the video link would solve
   that problem.

2) Publish more extensive errata on the BOE PO website.  Many important
   document/form errors are found well before election day, but are not
   made known to all the precinct officials.

3) 11/10/23:  Update the videos to match the current processes and to
   correct errors.


HARDWARE
========

1) Provide a way for the Tabulator to detect and reject a provisional
   ballot if a voter mistakenly tries to put a provisional ballot in the
   tabulator.  For example, this could be done by detecting a mark in a
   special area of a provisional ballot.  That mark would have been made
   by the Help Table Official before the ballot was given to the voter.
   Undoubtedly a Tabulator could be programmed for something as simple
   as this.

2) 3/19/24:  Get ES&S to fix the invisible password problem on the
   ExpressVote and Tabulator.  Put signature lines on all the Tabulator
   tapes.  Replace the "paper sheets", "DS200 ballots", and "ExpressVote
   cards" terms with "normal ballots" and "ExpressVote ballots" on the
   Tabulator tapes and magic button popups.


PROCESS
=======

1) 8/27/22:  Previous suggestions on handling some email problems:
   https://jgkhome.name/WakeBOE/Email_Problems_and_Solutions.txt


VAST
====

1) Provide a full wildcard facility, similar to what was in SOSA.  For a
   real-life example of where the wildcard facility solved a case where
   even the Help Line failed, see the Provisional Voter Processing
   section of http://jgkhome.name/WakeBOE/Postmortem_2016-06-07.txt
   More details have been provided in other correspondence with the BOE.


COURSES/TUTORIALS
=================

1) See above comment under PRECINCT OFFICIALS WEBSITE about somehow
   including a revision date on the website.


SUPPLIES
========

See http://jgkhome.name/WakeBOE/BOE_Supplies.txt.



Jeff Knauth, Precinct 19-19