EViD Activators Report

To access:  EViD > Activators Report

This dialog is an online report of activator-making activities for a selected election. It is intended to provide an audit of these activities but can also help flag activators that were made incorrectly.

To see detailed data for the activators made for a mode, click Staging, Early Voting, or Election Day. You will get a form similar to the one here.

 

 

The top pane lists the sessions of the Make Activator program that have been run for this election and mode—in this case the mode is Early Voting.

 

 

When the dialog first appears, the bottom pane lists all activators created by label name, disk signature, creation date/time, and status.

To see specifics on a particular activator run, highlight the run in the top pane. The specifics will appear in the bottom pane.

To return to the summary of all activators, click Show All Activators.

Possible Statuses

SUCCESS—The image was copied to the activator without errors.

Note: A successful copy does not guarantee that the activator can be read by EViD stations. We recommend you spot-check all batches of successfully processed activators prior to deployment at voting sites to verify there are no issues reading from the drives.

Duplicate—The image was copied to the activator without errors, but the activator has the same disk signature name as another activator created in this run. The disk signature is a unique identifier used by the Make Activators program to determine when a jump drive has already been seen and successfully made as an activator in the current run.

Note: Certain older activators do not have a disk signature. This will be indicated by a zero (0) in the bottom pane of the report. We recommend you add disk signatures to such drives so that each activator in your EViD system will have a unique identifier. Contact EViD Support for instructions on disk-signature assignment.

Error (either Formatting, Copying, or Ejecting)—The jump drive is faulty or there was an error formatting, copying the image, or ejecting the drive.

Highlighting a run in the top pane gives you a step-by-step log of what happened during the run. At the end of each run, the log is written as a text file to the \EViDMakeActivatorLogs folder for the election in the Voter Focus vault.