The election id is not deleted
automatically, manually, or otherwise.
This does bring up a related issue,
however (I wasn't going to bring this up until the 1.12.1
release). The 1.12.1 release of GEMS will have a new button on the
election setup dialog to change the election id. Currently, many
jurisdictions set up "template" databases with their precincts and districts,
and then copy the template to create new elections. The problem with doing
this has been that the election id remains the same between elections, so you
loose the ability to reject cards fed from previous elections into memory cards
of the current election. This is not a huge problem in practice, but
it certainly defeats the purpose of the election id. After 1.12.1,
jurisdictions that use this approach should change their election id
manually when creating new elections based on a
previous.
Ken
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