* *** COMMENTS_ON_MANUAL_MAY_DRAFT TXT - 2 Jun 2025 00:02:15 - JGKNAUTH ======================================================================== I also would like to see drafts of the Chief Judge Quick Guide, the Photo ID Quick Guide, and the Provisional Ballot form, as well as any important forms that are changing from the last election. After reviewing those I hope I can trim down https://jgkhome.name/WakeBOE/TEMPORARY/Actions_Summary.htm considerably. ======================================================================== The comments below are for Manual draft I received on 5/29/25. "$$$$$$$" identifies comments that are more significant than just editorial suggestions, typos caught, etc. Page 10: I still think this level of detail should be in the CJPG rather than the Manual. Only a short paragraph is needed here, not (some of) the details of what CJs and Js do. Here is what I propose for that page 10 paragraph: "The Tabulator may encounter ballot jams or stop accepting ballots if the Counted Ballots Bin becomes too full. To prevent this from happening, after every 1,500 voters the bin must be emptied and the ballots in it must be securely stored. Before starting this process the Chief Judge will announce to the voters what is about to take place and that the Tabulator will be temporarily unavailable. Voters must wait a short time before they can cast their ballots. When the emptying and storing process completes, the Chief Judge will announce that voters can resume casting their ballots." Page 24: The fourth bullet is misplaced. It is above the blue booth pictures and grouped with the blue booth bullets. However the fourth bullet is about black booths. It should be moved down to be with the black booth bullets and black booth pictures. (Same comment I made last year.) Page 32: The "39" age in the label image is skewed a little. Page 33: Under "Unreported Move Transfer (T)": The first sentence is a little awkward. I suggest: "Some voters have moved in county since last updating their registration information with the Board of Elections. If they have lived at their new residence for 30 days or more and show up at the polling place for that new address, they won't be in a pollbook at that polling place unless the new address and their (now obsolete) registration address both happen to be in the same precinct, the one served by the polling place they are now in. If not in the pollbooks, these voters will be sent to the Help Table..." Page 38: Item 3, bullet 2: "voter's" => "voters" Page 38: Item 3. This should say explicitly that the information read $$$$$$$$ aloud should be from the label, not just a repeat of what the voter said. It is very important that the voter confirms that the label is theirs, not just that the RT Official is repeating back what the voter said. The RTQG has this right. I made the same comment on this text last year. Page 38: As is well known by know, I have a problem with the current $$$$$$$$ documentation about when the label is peeled from the pollbook and stuck on the ATV. Switch items 4 and 5 and fix the item numbering and circled numbers on pages 38 and 39. This is covered in much more detail in my current comments on the RTQG May draft and with the rationale I documented often in emails last year. Page 41: This 2024.2 form is a very old form. It was included in last $$$$$$$ year's Manual, presumably because of printing schedules, although 2024.7 was the form finally put in the pollbooks for Election Day. Is there an even later version now? Anyway, update this page. Pages 45-49: Many of the checkbox x's are misplaced, shifted southwest somewhat. I assume some automated overlaying or underlaying caused the image placement and x placement to get out of sync. Page 75: Under Option 1: If the voter passes the Photo ID check, you $$$$$$$$ immediately let them sign and go the the Ballot Table. But there might be other things wrong that need checking and ATV modification by the BT Official, e.g., wrong address, wrong name, etc. The voter should not be allowed to proceed until all the possible exceptions are dealt with. This section should definitely say this. I made this comment on last year's Manual. Page 75: Under Option 1: If the ATV is spoiled at the end of the day, $$$$$$$$ say explicitly that is should be put in the BT's Spoiled bag. It is partly said in (last year's) PIDQG flowchart. Pages 76 and 77: More misplaced x's. I may well have missed some elsewhere in the Manual -- my vision is not great. Someone should carefully look at all the figures. Pages 81-83: Somewhere in here it should say exactly when the Photo ID $$$$$$$$ check should be done. When I asked last year, I was told it should be done after the voter has filled out all the yellow fields. This is needed to provide some of information for the check, e.g., the name. However don't jump the gun and start intermingling the two processes. See also below a repeat of my strong recommendation for another checkbox on the Provisional Envelope for the sometimes-required Photo ID check (voters without an ATV). Page 84: Will "Unreported Move" be deleted from the Provisional Envelope as a reason? If I understand the new "T" processing, there will now never be a provisional unreported move. Those voters now get handcrafted ATVs and vote normally after that (assuming some OTHER exception doesn't cause them to have to vote provisionally). Page 84: If a "T" voter shows up from the RT, ATV in hand, the Help $$$$$$$$ Line gets called. It's certainly possible that the voter will be allowed to vote provisionally. What reason should be marked on the envelope? It's sort of a "Voter has already voted" case, but not a true "A". The Voter Search will not say "THIS VOTER HAS ALREADY VOTED", the item 6 text. What the Manual has as an explanation is not what the Provisional Envelope says. Here are possibilities for a reason choice: 1) Use the existing "Voter Already Voted" reason and hope the HT Official provides a good explanation elsewhere and attaches the ATV with the pink "T". 2) Use the "Other" reason and have the HT Official put "T on ATV" (or something similar) in that small field. 3) Create a new "T on ATV (Transferred)" reason. Explanation: Some scoundrel impersonated you and voted in your name in another precinct. Or, more likely, Unfortunately an Official at the called precinct marked a "T" on the wrong ATV. Voter, if you had reported your move in the first place, none of this would not have happened. (The Provisional Envelope probably won't provide either of those explanations, but the HT Officials can think them.) Adding a new reason, e.g., "T on ATV", is probably the best. Provisional Envelope: (I don't have a draft to review yet, but since we $$$$$$$$ are on the subject of Provisional Envelopes.) The above items make me think there needs to be some rework of the Provisional Envelope at some point soon. I hereby reassert my strong recommendation that a Provisional Envelope checkbox is needed (at the start of the list on page 2) to say "Do a Photo ID check if the voter did not have an ATV", or something like that. Photo ID Checks are normally done at the RT, but are not done there when the voter's label is not in the pollbook. In that case the Photo ID check must be done at the HT. The signal to the HT is that the voter arrives at the HT with no ATV, so has not been checked so far and must get the Photo ID check done at the HT. However the HTQG documents this with nearly invisible footnote callouts in Flow Chart #2. The only-occasionally-required Photo ID check might easily be overlooked. See my current comments on the May HTQG. Page 90: In the last "A:" on the page: "such, list" => "such, the list" Page 100: Fourth cell down on the right: "on the back of the ExpressVote ballot." => "in the field on the back of the ExpressVote ballot." Page 105: (I'll bet you thought you had found all the places needing {:-) => changes for "T". The poor old Glossary is often ignored.) See "Unreported Move", which still uses provisional envelopes and is "T"-less. Page 107: The last sentence: "Tape the boxes shut or secure fold the flaps." => "Tape the boxes shut or securely fold the flaps." Jeff