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August 28, 2020
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EPB Practice and Education Day |
Mark your calendars for Thursday, October 1, for EPB Practice Day! Online courses will be available in the Elections eLearning Center. Staff will dedicate the day to answering your questions by email and phone as you practice and prepare your EPB for Election Day. Your participation is critical to help ensure we improve our experience with the EPB for November.
We have already taken steps to avoid a repeat of the problems the Monday night before the August Election as clerks were working diligently to prepare for Election Day.
- We are partnering with the Department of Technology, Management, and Budget (DTMB) to add additional performance capacity to QVF.
- We will be updating the EPB Manual (August 2020) to clarify file export instructions for jurisdictions with more than one precinct or one precinct and for those using Google Chrome or Internet Explorer 11.
- We are emphasizing the importance of early and thorough practice with the EPB setup process to minimize surprises the weekend before the election.
In order to help further improve the EPB experience, it is critical to prepare in advance. We spoke to some clerks and staff about pollbooks for the first time on the weekend before the election. Our call volume increases tremendously around that time and we are unable to provide full EPB instruction to new users at that point. Your questions can be addressed more thoroughly and we can point you toward instructional resources if we can start these conversations early.
Activities for the EPB Practice Day include:
- QVF EPB – What’s New for November 2020
- EPB Practice Scenarios
- EPB Stress Test – Practice downloading
- Lots of staff available to answer your EPB specific needs
To participate, simply log in to the eLearning Center on October 1 and select your preferred online courses. No course pre-registration is required since there are no specifically scheduled webinars. More course details will be forthcoming, and the classes will remain available for those who cannot attend October 1.
Thank you!
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QVF Software Release |
The QVF Software Release for August 21 and 28, 2020 is as follows:
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Voter Comments. Corrected an issue to ensure voter comments can be entered.
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AV List.
- Added a filter field titled “App Sent/Received” to allow users to view the report in the following ways:
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App Received. This view allows users to see the report in the view that we have always presented it with the App Received, Ballot Sent, and Ballot Returned view.
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App Sent and Received. View provides an additional column of App Sent so users can easily see where applications are sent.
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App Sent but Not Received. View provides a list of voters who were sent an application but did not return it.
- Added field titled “Out of Balance (Apps Received/No Ballot Sent)” which provides users with a quick view of all voters who returned their applications but have not yet been sent a ballot. This view will be helpful to users as we move closer to the election in determining who has not yet received a ballot.
- Added the ability to sort the AV List by ballot received date and ballot number.
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Permanent Accessible Report. This new report provides users access to a report that lists all voters who wish to be on the Permanent Accessible Absent Voter Application List. The report provides voters names, precinct, ballot sent date and ballot number.
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Voter Turnout Report. Allows users to run the report on Election Night to provide the number of registered voters, number of registered voters by gender, and the number of registered voters by gender-age.
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AV Details. Added a check box that says “Online AV” to show the user when the application was received through MVIC as a visual cue to show the user the way the application was received. This field is not editable.
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