Case 1:17-cv-02989-AT Document 579 Filed 08/15/19 Page 30 of 153
CPU is where the GEMS executable application or the GEMS
application is residing. The GEMS application is not residing on the
server. It is just – the server is just holding files. The GEMS
application is on the individual’s own CPU. They download a copy of
that file onto their computer. They open up the data file on their
computer. And they begin examining it to make sure that it has been
built properly, that all precincts are there, all district combinations –
that all ballots are there, all voting locations. That everything has
been built properly.
Q. All right. So then if they make a correction because
somebody’s name has been spelled incorrectly or for whatever
reason, they save it again on that. What happens then?
A. Right. They first – after they have made the correction, the
corrected file is residing on their personal CPU. They then create a
backup copy of that file and save it back to the server. That saving
action back to the server replaces the existing copy with the modified
copy. So we only have one copy of the database sitting on the server.
Q. Is that the public server, or is that on your –
A. That is the private.
Q. That is the private, your units?
A. Yes. Everything constructed with the GEMS is done through
the private environment.
Q. All right. So then what happens?
A. Then it moves from a review – a review of the database
function. Then the file is moved from one folder to another folder.
That folder is for audio and visual inspection. Once it is placed into
that folder, we have a dedicated room in our office where a member
of my team will go in, again copy that file from the server onto a
private CPU in order to create an election media, a memory card that
is then placed into a touchscreen device within that room. And then
we look at the ballot on a DRE to again validate that all the races are
appearing, all the candidates are in the proper order, that all the
audio files are in place, that we do not see any – any issues with the
display of the ballot on the touchscreen. Sometimes because of long
questions or such, the screen doesn't look correct in the way it lays
things out. So that would make us then make some subtle scaling
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