FYI, if you want to know why the votes happen in groups of 4,800, it's because that's the limit they train into the poll workers to switch out the compact flash. Since they use 16GB compact flashes and the file size of the image is quite big (for adjudication), the compact flash doesn't fit very many on it. It can theoretically hold something like 5,700 images, so they change them out around 4,800 to be safe.
Now when you combine that with pre-loaded temporary batches that are stored locally on a tabulator....you get fuckery.
FYI, if you want to know why the votes happen in groups of 4,800, it's because that's the limit they train into the poll workers to switch out the compact flash. Since they use 16GB compact flashes and the file size of the image is quite big (for adjudication), the compact flash doesn't fit very many on it. It can theoretically hold something like 5,700 images, so they change them out around 4,800 to be safe.
Now when you combine that with pre-loaded temporary batches that are stored locally on a tabulator....you get fuckery.