Specifications

Crestron e-control Vote SW-VOTE

98 •• Appendices Installation & Reference Guide — DOC. 5822

Excuse

Voting Console

Description

Seat excuses itself

Direction

control system to Voting Computer

Type

Digital

Value

Pulse

Expected Reply

None

Comments

This signal is accepted by the Voting Computer only while the floor is opened for

voting only. Even when the floor is opened, it will be ignored

§ when the signal block is not configured to allow excuses [Excuse (conflict-of-

interest) checkbox, Additional vote buttons frame, Rules tab, Voting Console Signal

Block Definition window];

§ when the seat has been excused from the vote, either by the operator prior to

opening the floor, or by the seat itself via a prior pulse of its Excuse signal; or

§ when taking attendance (voting sequence started by Attendance signal rather than

Start signal).

The seat may pulse its Yes, No, and Abstain signals at will while the floor is

opened. The most recently pulsed signal is considered definitive at the moment the

floor is closed. However, if the seat pulses its Excuse signal, further pulses of any

of these signals are be ignored. (The operator can however adjust the seat’s vote

after the floor is closed.)

The definition of the Abstain

signal set is optional. Note however that even when

not defined, the signal block may still be configured to allow abstentions. In such a

case, while the seat would not be able to abstain, his vote could still count as an

abstention under the following two circumstances:

§ The default vote is set to Abstain (ABSTAIN checkbox, Default votes frame, Rules

tab, Voting Console Signal Block Definition window).

§ After the floor is closed , the Operator adjusts the seat’s vote from the touchpanel

or from the Vote Proctor window.