Reply #60: Let me see if I can clarify this a little

[DEMActivist]

In Georgia, on election day, at the polling locations (precincts) there are touchscreen voting machines. Those machines have a software package on them named ballotstation.exe (and some other programs - pollbook.exe, etc.). In addition, the ballot images which have been prepared ahead of time are loaded into the EPROM along with the operating system (WindowsCE) and multiple DLLs and executable files. Some of those executables are pieces of the GEMS software (explained in depth below) in order to allow for control processes.

GEMS is the software which controls the county computers. There are 159 computers in Georgia running GEMS, one in each county. GEMS encompasses ballot preparation, reporting functions, vote compiliation, counting and certification functions along with other various and asundry election management functions (i.e., interfacing to the voter registration databases, candidate qualification, etc.) as well as the JResults server software.

Back to the polling place, no single machine is designated as the elections supervisor machine - they are all the same, all equal. The only thing which determines which is used as the accumulator, is the momentary decision of that supervisor at that given moment.

Hopefully, this answers your question.