* *** CJPG_ERRATA TXT - 31 Aug 2024  13:01:07 - JGKNAUTH


               CJPG Errata:  Handling ExpressVote Ballots
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When ballots are removed from the Counted Ballots Bin, the ExpressVote
ballots must be separated from the regular ballots.  This helps in
post-election processing.  At poll closing, the ExpressVote ballots must
be packed on top of the regular ballots in one of the voted ballots
boxes.  To do this separation, it is very helpful to know how many
ExpressVote ballots have been cast because the ExpressVote ballots may
be hard to find among all the cast regular ballots.

There are two times when Precinct Officials must do this separation of
ballots.  Each requires a different procedure to find the total number
of ExpressVote ballots cast by that time, i.e., the number cast by then
since the polls were opened.

Time 1:  When the Counted Ballots Bin must be emptied after about 1500
         ballots have been cast.

         To find the total number of ExpressVote ballots cast so far,
         press the small oval button on the "Welcome.  Please insert
         your ballot." screen.  The button is immediately to the left of
         the "Public Count" text and has a tiny magnifying glass in it.

         [picture needed]

         The second line of the resulting pop-up specifies the number of
         "ExpressVote cards" (ballots) cast since the polls were opened.

         <I don't recall the exact wording of that pop-up.>

         [picture needed]


Time 2:  When the Counted Ballots Bin is emptied at poll closing.

         At poll closing, five Tabulator tapes are printed.  All these
         tapes list the "Total ExpressVote Cards" (ballots) cast since
         the polls were opened.  These tapes are all the same, so you
         can use any one of them to find the ExpressVote number.

         [picture needed]

NOTE:  In both these cases, the number of ExpressVote ballots shown is
the TOTAL number of such ballots cast since the polls were opened.  Keep
that in mind if the count must be found at two different times, perhaps
once at a 1500-ballot bin emptying in the afternoon and then later at
poll closing.  The number of ExpressVote ballots expected to be in the
bin at poll closing would be the difference between the poll closing
count and the 1500-bin-emptying count because you removed all the
ExpressVote ballots cast so far when you did the 1500-bin-emptying.

An easy way to handle this is just to keep all the ExpressVote ballots
stacked together on top in one of the unsealed ballot boxes.  When you
think you have finished adding the last set of ExpressVote ballots to
the stack, the number of ballots in the stack should now equal the count
displayed by the latest of the above ways to find the total count.  If
it doesn't match, there are probably more ExpressVote ballots still to
be found in the piles of voted ballots or you miscounted the stack.
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Avoid using the "Locating the ExpressVote Count on the Tabulator."
procedure on page 21 of the Chief Judge Pocket Guide.  If you mis-enter
the "Tabulator code" three times, the Tabulator will shut down.  The
button procedure described above has no such problem.

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