* *** BOE_WISH_LIST TXT - 10 Nov 2023  12:59:59 - 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) 11/06/22:  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 HAVA ID
   verification sheet, and the Media Guide.

2) 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.

3) 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.  I stopped receiving review copies as of the
   November 2018 election.  Prior to then I was often sent review copies
   well before the election.

   8/24/23:  For the 11/7/23 election I was sent many of the documents
   to review before they were printed.  Many, but not all, of my
   comments were handled before the printing; the remainder are to be
   addressed by the 2024 documents.

4) Provide better documentation about how *Wake County* precinct
   officials should deal with observers.  The current documents cover
   the state and, for example, do not provide proper focus and guidance
   for observer handling of ATVs.

   5/20/22:  The 2022.v.2 Guide now mentions viewing the bound (ringed)
   ATV packs, which is good; that's the only thing we let the Observers
   do.  However it still mentions obtaining a list of voters; previous
   Observers have interpreted that to mean we would print a list for
   them to give to Runners, as apparently some counties do; we don't.
   See my postmortem for the 11/3/20 election in which this was a big
   problem.  It should be made clear that the list is something the
   Observers must create, not us.

   If the problem is that this Guide is an NC State Guide, not editable
   by Wake County, just put a brief writeup in the Manual describing the
   ATV viewing process we allow and warn that we provide no lists to
   Observers.  They must create their own lists.


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) 11/10/23:  Get ES&S to fix the invisible password problem on the
   ExpressVote and Tabulator.


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