BMD Map Report

2023 November Municipal, Rockville City, MD

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Run Date: 2026-09-09 21:27:20.561915 Copyright (c) Citizens' Oversight

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Introduction

This report provides a mechanism to refine the strings for contests and options to be found on BMD ballots without requiring changing the EIF file, which will prompt rebuilding many intervening stages. This report works in conjunction with the BMDIF_(job_name).csv file to allow improving both the contest and option strings.

For 'public oversight' workflow, this file will provide sample BMD ballots for the contests and the options. If 'cooperative' workflow is being used, the images will be available in advance but no CVR, and so this report will not be able to look up the ballots that include specific BMD strings.

Although there are input fields in this report, these fields are currently not active. It is necessary to edit the BMDIF file directly to make any corrections. It is most common to discover corrections that must be made to the contest names. For example the official contest name might be "3rd Congressional District, U.S. House of Representatives (3524)" and the BMD contest name might be "U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES". It is extremely helpful if election districts can use systematic conversions.

The BMD_header must also be corrected, if necessary, by editing the JOB setting file. For the ballots shown, some of the options will be shown. For public oversight methodology, the CVR is already available, so we can gather up a ballot for every option. For cooperative workflow, we can provide some of the options. It is generally possible to notice if there are consistent change from official contests and option names, and use the JOB parameters bmd_option_select_regex for example to select only the valid portion of the official string.

During extraction, the BMDIF file is used to set the strings for comparision, and these will override the settings in the EIF file. It is good practice to try a few extractions using the operation extract_ballot_by_ballotid --ballotid NNNN to see how well extraction will occur prior to running the full extraction, which may be expensive.

BMD Settings:

name	value
BMD_det_method	size
BMD_filesize_threshold	50,000
BMD_header	ROCKVILLE/STATE OF MARYLAND MUNICIPAL ELECTION 11/07/2023
BMD_header2
BMDs_exist	True
accept_disagreed_BMDs	True
attempt_bmd_if_nonbmd_alignment_fails	True
attempt_to_read_qrcode	False
bmd_column_period	536
bmd_fiducial_mark_p1
bmd_fuzzy_option_justify	left
bmd_ocr_marginal_threshold	85
bmd_ocr_psm	6
bmd_option_regex
diagnose_bmd_extraction	False
ess_use_sequence_barcodes	False
ev_coord_str_overrides_during_extraction
ev_coord_str_overrides_during_mapping
force_use_bmd_barcodes	False
fuzzy_neg_thres_BMD_options	100
fuzzy_thres_BMD_contest	60
fuzzy_thres_BMD_no_selection	80
fuzzy_thres_BMD_writein	60
include_BMDs_in_gen_bltbif	False
include_bmd_ballot_type	True
nonBMD_filesize_threshold
read_style_from_qrcode	False
redo_ocr_of_failing_bmd_options	True
report_bmd_basic_parse_failed	True
treat_nonupper_options_as_writeins	False

All Vendors Settings:

name	value
bmd_no_selection_str	NO SELECTION MADE
bmd_writein_prefix	W/I:
bmd_voted_for_option_prefix
bmd_uppercase_options	True
bmd_uppercase_contests	True
bmd_wrap_contest_lines	False
bmd_max_chars_per_line	38

ES&S Specific Settings:

name	value
bmd_top_parse_region	{'x': 450, 'y': 200, 'w': 850, 'h': 440}
bmd_top_parse_sizes	[{'w_nom': 506, 'h_nom': 40, 'w_min': 485, 'w_max': 525, 'h_min': 35, 'h_max': 100}]
bmd_margins	{'lm': 200, 'rm': 200, 'top': 50, 'bot': 200}

BMD Report Table :

official_name	bmd_name	link
Mayor	MAYOR	12437
Monique Ashton	MONIQUE ASHTON	12437
Mark Pierzchala	MARK PIERZCHALA	12636
City Council	CITY COUNCIL	12437
Danniel Belay	DANNIEL BELAY	12636
Kate Fulton	KATE FULTON	12437
Richard Gottfried	RICHARD GOTTFRIED	11841
Barry Jackson	BARRY JACKSON	12437
David Myles	DAVID MYLES	11841
Anita Neal Powell	ANITA NEAL POWELL	12579
Paul Scott	PAUL SCOTT	12437
Izola (Zola) Shaw	IZOLA (ZOLA) SHAW	12437
Marissa Valeri	MARISSA VALERI	12437
Adam Van Grack	ADAM VAN GRACK	12437
Question 1 - Voting Age	QUESTION 1 - VOTING AGE	12437
Yes / Si	YES / SI	12636
No / No	NO / NO	12437
Question 2 - Non-Citizen Voting	QUESTION 2 - NON-CITIZEN VOTING	12437
Yes / Si	YES / SI	12437
No / No	NO / NO	11841
Question 3 - Term Limits	QUESTION 3 - TERM LIMITS	12437
Yes / Si	YES / SI	12437
No / No	NO / NO	11841
Question 4 - Representative Districts	QUESTION 4 - REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS	12437
Yes / Si	YES / SI	12281
No / No	NO / NO	12437

12437

#### ballot_id: 12437

official_name	bmd_name	link
Mayor	MAYOR	12437
Monique Ashton	MONIQUE ASHTON	12437
City Council	CITY COUNCIL	12437
Kate Fulton	KATE FULTON	12437
Barry Jackson	BARRY JACKSON	12437
Paul Scott	PAUL SCOTT	12437
Izola (Zola) Shaw	IZOLA (ZOLA) SHAW	12437
Marissa Valeri	MARISSA VALERI	12437
Adam Van Grack	ADAM VAN GRACK	12437
Question 1 - Voting Age	QUESTION 1 - VOTING AGE	12437
No / No	NO / NO	12437
Question 2 - Non-Citizen Voting	QUESTION 2 - NON-CITIZEN VOTING	12437
Yes / Si	YES / SI	12437
Question 3 - Term Limits	QUESTION 3 - TERM LIMITS	12437
Yes / Si	YES / SI	12437
Question 4 - Representative Districts	QUESTION 4 - REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS	12437
No / No	NO / NO	12437