* *** COMMENTS_ON_INITIAL_2024_DOCUMENTS TXT - 3 Jan 2024  20:23:42 - JGKNAUTH


             Comments on 2024 Documents for March Election
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$$$$$$$$$ flag the more important comments.
######### flag [name, addr, photo ID] vs [name, photo ID, address]
          order comments.


Registration Table Quick Guide   (2024.v.2)
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Flow Chart:  Column 1, block 2, item 4:  Delete "check the last box".
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Flow Chart:  Column 1, block 2, item 1:  Reorder to repeat the name,
##########   address, and party info before doing the photo ID check.

Flow Chart:  Column 3, block 2, item 1:  Reorder to repeat the name,
##########   address, and party info before doing the photo ID check.

Flow Chart:  Column 3, block 2, item 2 and 3:  Reorder (swap them).
##########

Flow Chart:  Column 3, block 2, item 3:  "of ATV" -> "of the ATV".

Flow Chart, heading: Reorder to repeat the name, address, and party info
##########   before doing the photo ID check.


Ballot Table Quick Guide   (2024.v.1)
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Page  1, under "Packing Up After the Polls Close", reword bullet 1 and
         its sub-bullets:

     * Count the number of unvoted ballots (regular and ExpressVote),
       place them in empty cardboard boxes, and report the count to the
       Chief Judge.

       - Add the number of ballots from opened packs to the number
         of ballots from unopened packs (see next bullet).

       - (use text from old first sub-bullet for this second sub-bullet)

Page  1, under "Packing Up After the Polls Close", bullet 2:  Reword
         last sentence to:  "If a second bag is used, even if it is
         empty, record the last ATV number on it."


Help Table Quick Guide   (2024.v.2)
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Flow Chart 1:  Missing callouts to footnote 1, after "Ballot Style":
$$$$$$$$$$$$   1) Left column of blocks, second from bottom.
               2) Middle column of blocks, bottom block.

Flow Chart 2:  Footnotes in four gray blocks are hard to see.

Flow Chart 2, footnote 1: "If the voter completes" -> "If the voter is
              to complete".


Voter Assistance Quick Guide   (2024.v.1)
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Page  2: "Voter without Disability" block:  This block does not say
         Precinct Officials (or Early Voting staff) can assist the
         voter, although they are explicitly listed in the "Voter with
         Disability" block.  Yet the bottom Q/A on this page says
         Precinct Officials can help.  This writeup is confusing.

         Wouldn't it be better to delete the last Q/A and add Precinct
         Officials and Early Voting staff to the "Voter without
         Disability" block?


All Officials Quick Guide   (2024.v.1)
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No comments


Photo ID Quick Guide  (no version ID!)
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Page  1:  Swap items 2 and 3.
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Provisional Envelope  (no version ID!)
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Back side: Should there be a checkbox to remind the HT Official to do a
$$$$$$$$$  photo ID check for cases when that check had not been done at
           the RT?  The timing is unclear when the HT photo ID check is
           done; presumably it's after the voter has filled out Section
           A of the envelope so that name can be compared with the photo
           ID.  However, shouldn't it be done before the voter has
           voted?  See also the HTQG comment above Flow (Chart 2,
           footnote 1).

           Since a photo ID check is done for only some voters at the
           HT, this looks like something that can easily be overlooked
           by the HT Officials unless there is some reminder, e.g., on
           the provsional envelope.  I guess if the HT Official has no
           ATV to attach to the Provisional Envelope, that means  a
           photo ID check is still required (not too memorable).


Reconciliation Form   (2024.v.1)
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Page 1, first line under "2. Other Used Ballots":
         "yellow field D" -> "yellow field C"


2024 Primary Election Manual  (no version ID!)
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(Since I don't yet have a hardcopy, I couldn't review the Manual as
carefully as I would like.)

Page 46, "No Photo ID ..." section:
$$$$$$$  * Item 1 needs some editing.
         * Item 3 is out of date vs the ATV 2024.v.1 checkboxes.

Page 55, last sentence of "Section D":  Why call the Help Line vs
$$$$$$$  calling over the CJ (as in the previous Manual)?  If Section D
         was not filled out, this appears to be a local problem.  The CJ
         should find out why the local HT did not process the ATV
         correctly, or maybe the transfer-in voter went directly to the
         BT from the RT instead of going to the HT.  This would be a lot
         easier for the CJ (or BT) to figure out than the Help Line.

Page 62, last Q/A:  This has never seemed to read correctly, e.g., the
$$$$$$$  "No" at the top seems to say a PO cannot help a disabled person
         put the ballot in the Tabulator.  Then the two sub-bullets talk
         about preparing ballots, not entering them in the Tabulator.
         In past years I had provided an edit of all this.

Page 66, top section:  Indentation/list problems.

Page 75: The text in the top paragraph differs from that on page 44
         about what type of information could be presented when the
         voter registered.  Which is right?


Chief Judge Pocket Guide  (2024.v.?)
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There is currently no CJ Resources tab on the PO website, so I assume
there is no CJPG available yet.


Jeff