Elections Features in Voter Focus

Voter Focus offers an extensive range of programs to help you manage your elections. Such management activities include setting up ballot styles, maintaining candidate information, managing polling places, generating precinct registers, and recording voting history data after an election.

Most features are accessed from the ELECTIONS tab on the Console, others are on the CANDIDATE SERVICES tab. On either of these tabs, remember to select the election you want to work on as the focused election.

Election Status

Over the course of an election cycle, an election moves through various stages. Activities that must be performed in one stage might be inappropriate if performed in an earlier or later stage. To prevent users from performing election activities inappropriately, Voter Focus provides a structure of five statuses. The elections coordinator can then assign the appropriate status to each election. See Election's Status for more information.

Election Maintenance Activities

Set Up an Election in the Database

Clone an Election

Select the Default Election

Set Up Places (Physical Locations) Used for an Election

Set Up Temporary Ballot Styles for an Election

Set Up Ballot Styles for an Election

Assign Ballot Styles to Precincts

Create Sample Ballot Export Files for Commercial Printers

Email Sample Ballots to Voters

Change a Precinct's Polling Place for a Single Election

Handle a Mail-Ballot Election

Change the Dates for a Statewide Election

Create Book Closing Totals

Candidate Activities

Maintain Candidates in Elections

Set Up Candidates for Voter Labels and Files

Give a Candidate Access to Your Website

Precinct Register Activities

Combine Precincts in a Single Precinct Register

Divide a Precinct Register into Multiple Books

Set Up a Separate Precinct Register for a Precinct Split

Generate Precinct Registers and Supplements

Print Precinct Registers

Print Replacement Pages for a Precinct Register Book

Produce Supplements to Precinct Registers

Export a Precinct Register File for an Outside Printer

Post-Election Activities

Collect Voting History from Precinct Registers

Enter Non-Register Voting History

Create a List of Those Voting in an Election

Import Tabulation Totals from Dominion GEMS

Import Tabulation Totals from ES&S Unity

Process Voting History Data

Schedule and Print Provisional Disposition Letters

Send Your Voting History Data to the State

Archive Reports after an Election

Store Election Data in the Vault