* *** JUNE_HELP_TABLE_QUICK_GUIDE_COMMENTS TXT - 11 Jun 2015  23:16:33 - JKNAUTH


Page 1:  Add revision date (of course).

         I see you did add "Quick Guide" in a box after changing the
         title to "Checklist"; that's good.

Page 1:  Under Monday Setup, checkbox 1, sub-checkbox 4:  Delete that
         "One copy of the absentee list" item.

         There is now only one copy of the big absentee list; it is hung
         on the wall during Monday setup.  All its information is in the
         laptop (with voters marked as "VOTED").  The HT people do not
         ever have to wade thru that paper document to check if someone
         has already voted; their standard use of Name Search in Flow
         Chart #2 will show "VOTED" for all the voters on that big list.
         However, see below (page 4 comment) for the usually very small
         list of absentees who voted late.

         My procedure on Monday night it go to your website and access
         the list of late absentee voters for our precinct.  I print two
         copies of that name/address/VRN data (typically very few
         voters, if any).  On Tuesday I tape one copy to the big
         absentee list hung on the wall.  I tape the other to the laptop
         so the HT people will remember to use it for Flow Chart #2
         situations.  If I could not get the data via the website for
         some reason, I would just handwrite (two copies) the
         information received in the Tuesday morning call from the BOE
         and then do the tapings mentioned above.

Page 1:  Under Monday Setup, checkbox 5, sub-checkbox 1:

            "and make an outgoing call" ->
            "and can make an outgoing call to the coordinator"

Page 1:  Under Opening the Polls, checkbox 2:  After the comma,

            "add the voters' names..." ->
            "put this late absentee list at the laptop where it will
             be checked when going thru Flow Chart #2"

Page 1:  Under Packing Up After the Polls Close, checkbox 3

            "before sealing" ->
            "before it is sealed"

            The current wording might lead a rushed HT person to
            believe he should seal the bag, and then realize too late
            that he just goofed.  Probably this checkbox item should be
            moved, but then you have to deal with the "above" in it.  I
            didn't pursue it further.

General comment on Flow Chart #2:  We never say anything explicitly that
the HT person should look at the ATV checkboxes which the RT person was
supposed to check to say why the voter is being sent to the HT.  The
trainer should probably mention those checkboxes when discussing this
chart.  If HT people are ignoring the checkboxes, it was a somewhat
wasted effort for RT people to mark them (and for auditing CJs to ensure
RT people are doing that task); maybe the checkbox data is also used
post-election by the BOE for statistics.

Page 2:  Second column, third box:  If an error is found in items 1 or
         3, previously we were told to call the Help Line so they could
         "harangue" the person in the other precinct who had made the
         mistake.  Also the Help Line would tell our precinct how to
         proceed, given the bad ATV.  The answer was "go provisional", I
         think, which is why it is so important for transfer-out
         officials not to make such mistakes.

Page 2:  Second column, fourth box:  As I recall in the old HT manual,
         there was also a consideration to check the mailing address
         here since a bad mailing address could have caused the "V"
         problem in the first place.  There would be several
         combinations to consider to debug the "V" problem.  Does the
         explicit or default mailing address the voter listed in Section
         B differ from what the BOE lists as the explicit or default
         mailing address?  "V" could arise if the mailing addresses are
         out of sync.

         However I think the SAME/DIFFERENT decision is just based on
         the residence address.  Having the voter record the latest
         mailing address in Secion B should be sufficient for the BOE to
         later sort out the "V" cause.  For now the HT person can just
         compare the Section B *residence* address with Section A's
         address to continue processing this voter.  Right?  Since the
         Section B "address" is not qualified in the flow chart, there
         could be some confusion.  Maybe change to "Compare the
         residence address in Section B to the address in Section A."

Page 4:  First oval:  This is no longer worded correctly.  The HT person
         doesn't just need to know that the voter has no ATV (someone
         could have just walked in the door and gone to the HT to skip
         those long RT lines).  Instead the HT person needs to know that
         the voter went to the RT first and was there directed to go to
         the HT, probably because the voter's name could not be found in
         the pollbooks.

Page 4:  Third oval:  on the paper absentee list ->
                      on the late absentee list kept at the laptop

Page 4:  Fourth oval:  Looks like a sentence was dropped; it is needed
         for the YES/NO legs.  Perhaps "Does the ballot style say NO
         BALLOT?"

Page 4:  Sixth oval:  The "Voter Search?" text at the bottom was clipped
         a little in the printout.

If there is a vertical space overflow problem that caused the last two
comments, I'd suggest deleting the "Start Here" flags image at the top.
I doubt if an HT person would have much trouble figuring out where to
start; if they do, they probably shouldn't be an HT person.

Jeff