* *** COMMENTS_ON_2025_BASIC_MODULE TXT - 15 Sep 2025  23:15:24 - JGKNAUTH

                     Comments on 2025 Basic Module
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Thanks for making the Basic module available to me.  I really think any
CJ should be able to easily see what the other Officials are being told
to do.  Below are my comments, many of which are just slide number
updates of the comments I made on the 2024 Basic module:
https://jgkhome.name/WakeBOE/OLD_COMMENTS/Comments_on_11-5-24_Basic_Module.txt
I also now used the Menu section titles to make things easier to find.

 1) Election and General Information > Election Timeline > Hear from the
    Chief Judge (slide 21):  This almost encourages CJs to wait until
    two weeks before Election Day before contacting the POs.  That's
    definitely not good.  Anyway, here the POs should be warned to
    frequently check their spam folders for emails from their Chief
    Judge, whose name and email address they very well might not know --
    as commented on in detail in
    https://jgkhome.name/WakeBOE/TEMPORARY/Actions_Summary.htm#reminder

 2) Registration Table > Updates to the ATV (slide 51):  Says the Help
    Line will tell the RT Official to mark the pink "T".  It's the Help
    Table Official who tells the RT Official to do this.  Right?  Or the
    HT Official may do the actual marking, since the RT Official at this
    time may well be busy working with a voter using a different
    pollbook.

 3) Registration Table> (many slides):  As I have often documented in
    detail elsewhere, there are problems in the RT flowchart and the
    resulting flow.  For example, see
    https://jgkhome.name/WakeBOE/Comments_on_2025-09-10_Documents.txt

 4) Ballot Table > Issuing an ExpressVote Ballot (slide 128):  For the
    text filled in by the Official, that funky font may be artistic, but
    it's hard to read.

 5) Voter Assistance > Ballot Jams (slide 158):  The jam image shown
    does not say whether the ballot has been counted or not.  (Note the
    bold text about this.)  Is this an old image?  The "Tabulator Error
    Message<s> Video", "Ballot Jams" section" does show the correct
    image.

 6) Voter Assistance > Tabulator Error Message Video:  As I have
    commented in previous years for this and previous similar videos,
    telling the voter to watch for the count to change is a *VERY BAD*
    thing to do.  In those past comments I described an experience I had
    with a voter (using the old M100 Tabulator) who missed seeing the
    count change and caused a lot of problems, insisting her vote had
    not been counted even though it had been counted, as was
    subsequently verified.  Even on the current DS200 Tabulator that
    count change is easy to miss.  However the current Tabulator has
    very good messages for ballot acceptance vs problem notices.  That's
    what voters should watch for and is definitely what I tell my
    Officials to instruct voters to watch for.  This video should be
    brought up-to-date.

 7) Electronics (slide 162):  Are voters allowed to have their phones
    out doing research while standing in the RT line in the voting
    enclosure?  It is absolutely impossible to detect if they are also
    taking pictures.  Shouldn't such smart phone research be restricted
    to just when the voter is in the voting booth?  If I see someone
    using a smartphone, I tell them to put it away until they get in the
    booth.

 8) Curbside Video (slide 164):  I sure wish someone would chop off the
    first 20+ seconds of the curbside video.  The video should focus on
    the important stuff, which is complicated and you need to get to it
    ASAP.

 9) Closing the Polls > Emptying Counted Ballots Bin Continued (slide
    180):  The video ends and then for the next minute there is a black
    screen as the progress bar slider slowly creeps to the right.  That
    might lead to some confusion, but sounds like a fixable problem.

    As noted in past years, this emptying scenario is pretty
    unrealistic.  For almost every precinct there will be far more
    ballots to deal with than shown in the video, e.g., to search thru
    for ExpressVote ballots.

10) General comment:  Many of the Tabulator images use the special
    "Protected Count" configuration, which is not what is used at
    polling places.  They also don't show the "magic" button.  Note that
    the button is finally shown on the Welcome screen in the PO
    website's "Opening and Closing the Polls" video.

I guess because this module was provided outside the normal training
system, the normal "EXIT THE COURSE" does not work.  It just grays out.
Then if you try to restart the module, it immediately goes right back to
the Final Reminders screen.  I wanted to replay the module to make sure
my notes were right.  I finally figured out a way to do the replay by
executing the module and then just opening up the Menu sidebar while on
the Final Reminders screen.  I then could click on whatever I wanted to
see.  The Menu facility is good.

Jeff