November 01, 2010 (Issue 513)

M100 Time Settings:  If your jurisdiction uses M100 tabulators, ask your election inspectors at some point during tomorrow's election to check the time entry on the tabulator zero tape which they generated before the polls opened.  If the time entry is inaccurate, further instruct the election inspectors to make an appropriate notation on the remarks page of the poll book.

This advice is offered as the M100 tabulators are not yet programmed to accommodate the new ? and later ? Daylight Savings Time ending date.  (This year, Daylight Savings Time ends on Sunday, November 7.)  As a consequence, if you have not yet reset the time feature on your M100 tabulators to compensate for the later Daylight Savings Time ending date, it is probable that the tabulators have already rolled back one hour.

If you have not yet reset the time feature on your M100 tabulators at this date, do not attempt to make this adjustment at this point in time.  As explained above, an appropriate notation in the poll book is adequate.