User Permissions

To access: VOTER FOCUS ADMIN > User Permissions > {user type}

All users do not have equal access to features in Voter Focus. Their ability to see data and run programs depends on their user type and the user permissions given to that user type.

The Voter Focus administrator defines permissions at the user type level and then assigns each user to a user type. This saves the administrator from having to assign rights to each individual user.

The buttons and other access controls for features that the administrator has disabled for a user type are not displayed to those users. For example, if you disable the user permission called DeliverBallots, users of that user type do not see the Deliver Ballots button on the Vote By Mail tab on the Console and thus will be unable to set up mail ballots for delivery to voters. (In a few cases, access controls for disabled features are still shown, but are disabled.)

Click here for a description of the features secured by each user permission.

When VR Systems adds a secured feature to Voter Focus, the system administrator must enable the feature for the user types that need access to it.

User permissions are database-specific. If you create a new Sandbox or Training database, it will inherit the user permissions in the production database. The settings in Sandbox or Training can then be modified as you wish, with no effect on the live database settings.