Yellow Birch bark

 The replacement memory cards were delivered to the clerk on Tuesday.  She let me know they were in and she would leave them at the town hall.  Both Barb (the chief inspector) and I were anxious to know if these cards would work.  However, the posted notification of new Public Test was set for Thursday morning.  Barb and I went to the town hall on Wednesday and conducted the test for the election.  This is a non-partisan election which includes town officials.  Therefore, each set of memory cards is different from every other in the county.  Once the memory cards loaded we checked that they included our town races.  Then we voted multiple times - each official was voted for at least once, we did write-ins for every office, we used the handicapped auditory interface to vote, we tried to fool the system by voting for more than one person for an office.  We closed the polls and carefully checked the totals - everything was AOK.  Zero'd the count, closed up the machine, and we are ready for the election next week.  There was still the matter of the posted Public Test for Thursday though.   This morning,  I drove down to the town hall and sat.  I'm in a book club and hadn't quite finished the March book so  spent the time reading (well, listened since it's an audio book).  If anyone showed for the test, I would open up the polls, conduct another test, and zero out the count.  No one came.  The only issue we have now is we didn't set ahead the clock on the machine to account for Daylight Savings Time.  Turns out once the cards are inserted, you can't change the time.  In a Catch-22 situation, you get an immediate error if you try to turn on the machine w/o having the cards inserted.  (Trick is you acknowledge the error message 5 times and it brings up a Maintenance Screen where you can change the time.  I swear if I was still programming, I'd never set up a system that obtuse.)   Not the end of the world - will make a note on the incident report that machine times are off by an hour.