* *** PW_MANUAL_2009-09-06 TXT - 6 Sep 2009  14:33:02 - JKNAUTH

Brenda, here are my comments on the 9/1/09 revision of the Pollworker
Manual.  I appreciate all the formatting and organizational work you did
to make the manual cleaner and easier to understand.  Will we get
Appendix H to review?

I underlined the comments below that I thought should be pointed out in
the Statutory class.  The rest are questions or are just early input for
the manual revision for next year.

Has any NC State BOE progress been made to address the points I listed
in http://nbtha.org/WakeBOE/BOE_suggestions_2009-04-25.txt?  That April
list was a summary of items other than Pollworker Manual comments.


Comments/Questions on 9/1/09 Pollworker Manual
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Page A-8:   I don't understand the explanation of the pink absentee list
=========   vs. pollbook mismatch.  If the voter is not in our pollbook
            but is on the pink list, that sounds like at early voting
            the voter had reported a move *into* our precinct instead of
            out of it.  The pink list (has the latest info) reflects
            that move, but the pollbook hasn't caught up yet.  Right?

Page A-10:  First indented box bullet:  "All three Judges must sign the
            first tape (or zero tape)."  The zero tape should have
            already been signed, back when the scanner was booted. Why
            the "(or zero tape)" in this sentence?

Page A-11:  Somewhere here it should mention turning the key to Off and
            removing it.

Page A-13:  Change "purple" to "red" in item 3.  You should probably do
==========  a Word find on "purple" to see if there are any other purple
            bags in the electronic document.  I didn't see any in the
            hardcopy, but might have missed them.  I did see there was
            now going to be a purple envelope for mailing the totals
            tape.

Page A-14:  "Write the number of Write-in ballots on the Ballot
==========  Reconciliation Form."  Where?  This looks like a mistake.

Page A-18:  Why don't the movers take the curbside alert system, leaving
            one less thing for the Chief Judge to have to transport?  I
            think the CJs have to carry too much.  They should take only
            security-related items.  Why so many signs and such?

Page B-10:  Sixth bullet:  Change "sign" to "verify and sign".  We
            always explicitly ask the voter to check the label and sign
            if the information is correct.  Otherwise I am afraid too
            many people would just blindly sign and some poll manual
            errors might slip thru for another cycle.

Page B-14:  The Ballot Table Official should count each opened package
==========  of ballots.  You had recommended this for the last election
            and it was good that you did.  Three of the nine packages we
            opened had only 99 ballots, not 100.  See item 3 under
            "Hardware and Supplies" in
            http://nbtha.org/WakeBOE/Postmortem_2008-11-04.txt.  Is the
            current ballot vendor more reliable than the previous one?
            I'd be interested to know how many other precincts counted
            ballots last November and found too few or too many ballots
            in a package.

Page B-15:  First indented bullet (the Hint):  Change "the number of
            voters voting" to "the number of voters voting, including
            curbside".

Page B-16:  Item 7:  Say the Ballot Table Official must not number the
==========  ATV at this point.

Page B-16:  Item 10:  I thought the ballot itself now will have the oval
            marking instructions.

Page B-16:  Item 13:  Add "*after* the Ballot Table Official has
==========  checked the ATV."  The "At a Glance" section has it right.

Page C-3:   In Step 3, if the voter can now show a valid ID, the ATV
            should be completed and the voter can be sent to the Ballot
            Table.

Page C-4:   First square bullet:  Section B should already be complete.
            Just say "Continue with the steps below."

Page C-8:   Say the voter can use whatever ballot he chooses to do the
            jurisdictional dispute provisional vote.  Probably none that
            are available will make him very happy, but he can choose
            from what is available.


Editorial Comments
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thruout     In most places "physical address" should probably be
            "residence address".  There is still a mixture of the two.

unnumbered  Table of Contents has some misalignments of the continued
            lines.  When this is fixed (and with a possible font size
            reduction), the TOC should fit on one page.

Page A-15:  Edit the ninth box bullet:  The "Number of the last
            Authorization to Vote" MUST EQUAL the sum of ...

Page B-2:   Fix "IFORMATION".

Page B-5:   Fix "BOE, JOH" on the left.

Page B-6:   Underline or otherwise emphasize "in the ballot style box".

Page B-7:   Remove extraneous leading underscore in heading.

Page B-9:   Fix "Competed" in bottom right box.

Page B-14:  Second bullet: Change "ATV #" to "ATV NUMBER" to match form.

Page C-3:   In middle box for Step 5:  lost a "to" in front of "vote".

Page C-4:   Lost its page number.

Page C-5:   Bottom of "moved" got truncated in box on left.

Page C-5:   In section C of the Transfer Out ATV example, the New
            Polling Place Address text overlay got put too low on the
            printed page and wiped out the next line of the image.

Page D-2:   Properly align second line of item 4.

Page D-3:   It would be nice if "first label" could point up to the
            final destination in the image above and "second label"
            could point down to the final destination in the image
            below.  Unfortunately there is no way to have "third label"
            point to its destination.

Jeff Knauth, precinct 01-43