Ballot Manifest
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Define the format for a ballot manifest.
Maybe this should be the same format as the CORLA? This is documented in the CORLA tool.
Ballot sheet manifests as used in ColoradoRLA are documented in book.html. You can download that (but not view it in formatted form directly) at:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FreeAndFair/ColoradoRLA/fbbc9aba46c4db4b9c7349a855397a27439d2a5b/docs/book.html
I.e.
ballot manifest - A document that describes how ballot cards are organized and stored, and relates a Cast Vote Records to the physical location in which the tabulated ballot card is stored. The ballot manifest specifies the physical location of a ballot card to allow staff to find the specific ballot card represented by a given CVR. A ballot manifest will contain the following information:
county ID, tabulator ID, batch ID, the number of ballot cards in each batch, and the storage location where the batch is secured following tabulation.
It notes a sample manifest:
https://github.com/FreeAndFair/ColoradoRLA/blob/fbbc9aba46c4db4b9c7349a855397a27439d2a5b/docs/samples/manifest-dq.csv
More complete examples of working manifests and cvrs are at e.g.https://github.com/FreeAndFair/ColoradoRLA/tree/fbbc9aba46c4db4b9c7349a855397a27439d2a5b/test/e-1
Ballot manifest format approved by RI election officials is now frozen per attached email msg from Mark Lindeman and attached tab-separated .txt
Ballot Manifest Template.txt
template
Lindeman email re ballot manifest format.txt
I'm a bit confused on this. The example ballot manifest has
box 1, 9050 sheets, 85 first imprint ID, 9034 first imprint ID
Is this a typo? If the imprint IDs are implicit positions (which is how I had been interpreting them), then 9034-85+1 should be 9050, which it isn't. Not sure if this is a typo in the example manifest or the imprints mean something different? Leaving this open until that is clarified
Yes, that's a typo. The imprints should be unique: it may be possible to have a skip, but isn't possible to reuse. (Dunno how rigorous the validation will be for the pilot.) --This is Mark, by the way.
Defined and done :)