- Go to EARLY VOTING
> Early/Counter Voting.
- In the Current Voting
Location field, select your early voting location and click
OK.
- On the Find a Voter
dialog, do a local search for the voter by name or registration number.
- On the Choose an
Election dialog, select the election for which you want to
process early voting and click OK.
- On the Voting Election dialog, check
the message box on the left side of the dialog for messages indicating
that the voter might not be eligible to vote. Verify the voter's residence
address, political party affiliation, date of birth, and signature.
- If the voter says their residence address has changed,
click Address Change and enter
the new address information on the Voter
New Address dialog. Any change to the residence address change
must be entered prior to processing their early vote because the address
change might affect the voter's precinct and ballot style. You can
also modify the voter's mailing address and toggle their military/civilian
status here, if they provide you with an update to this information.
-
On the Choose an
Election dialog, verify that the election for which you want
to process early voting is selected and click OK.
The Choose an Election dialog displays again because a change the voter's address might change their
eligibility to vote in the election as well at their ballot style.
If the voter is not permitted to early vote
because of the address change, the reason will be noted in large type
in the message box. If this happens, explain the situation to the voter
and process their vote as a provisional
ballot.
- Check the voter's photo ID and then select a value
in the Type of ID Provided
field. If the voter has no valid ID, they cannot be issued a regular
ballot or use the touchscreen machines; they can vote only by provisional
ballot.
- Select the appropriate option in the Voting
Method box—Optical Scan or Touch
Screen.
Note: If the
Optical Scan button is not available, it means you are not currently within the
early voting period, as
defined in the
election
record.
- If your early voting location uses the optical scan
method and your county uses ballot numbers during early voting, enter
the ballot number in the Ballot Number
field.
- Click OK to
complete processing of the early voting ballot. If Voter Focus is
set up to print
Early Voting Voter Certificates and labels,
the certificate and label(s) will print to your default and DYMO printers,
respectively.
If you are using a ballot printer, the ballot
will print. Should the ballot be spoiled, see Handle
Spoiled Ballots Printed at Voting Sites for instructions.
Runbeck ballot
printers only. If your system does not use the option VOTER FOCUS ADMIN > System Options > Early Voting > Hide Tiebreaker,
match the number on the ballot stub or cover sheet with the number printed
on the Early Voting Voter Certificate (provided that your system uses
the option VOTER FOCUS ADMIN > System
Options > Early Voting > Print Early Voting Voter Certificate).
Note that this number is not the ballot number; it is a random number
generated by the system to help election workers match the voter with
their correct ballot.