Last Update: July 28, 2014 |
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Post processing is the final, yet very important step that must be completed before reports and voting history can be done. During post processing:
• Voter check-ins will be recorded that did not make it back to the county office because of any communications problems.
• Provisional ballots cast and the information associated with them (tracking numbers, reasons for, and so on) are also transferred to the database.
• Address changes made on EViD stations are applied to voter records, in the event that the transactions were not sent over the Internet.
• If the system option Save Signatures in Voter Focus is selected, signatures collected at EViD stations are processed into the voter registration database where they can be viewed on the voter’s Elections tab in the Voters application.
Post processing should be run at the end of each day during early voting and after the polls close on election day.
To gather the data for post processing, a jump drive is inserted in the EViD station at the end of the voting day and the EViD is shut down. During the shut-down process, the EViD’s QLogs are copied to the jump drive. The jump drives are then collected at the county office for the post-processing procedure described in this chapter. The QLogs can be copied from EViD stations to any jump drive. The jump drive need not be an EViD activator.
All post-processing steps in this chapter apply to both early voting and election day voting.
In addition to end-of-day processing, QLogs can be processed at any time during early voting and on election day, and processing can be done more than once. Repeated processing has no effect on transactions already transmitted to the database; they are simply ignored. Only transactions not found in the database will be processed.