Election Maintenance
To access: ELECTIONS > Maintain
Election Settings > New
or ELECTIONS > Maintain Election Settings > New > FVRS Election Number > OK
or ELECTIONS > Maintain Election Settings > Election Maintenance
Fields and Controls on this Dialog
Three-digit election number |
A display-only field indicating the three-digit Voter Focus number assigned to the election. |
Election Name |
The name of the election as it will appear
on dialogs and reports. |
Election Date |
The date when the election takes place.
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Election Type |
Indicates whether
the election is a primary or general election. If the election
is a statewide contest, either General
Election or Primary Election
is automatically selected General Election—Allows only one ballot style per precinct. This ballot style is used by all parties. Primary Election—Allows ballot styles for the two major parties (Democratic and Republican) and for no party affiliation (Npa) voters. |
Date Register Closed |
The date of book closing for the election.
For statewide elections, this field cannot be changed except by
clicking Update Dates Important: For local elections, accurate dates in Election
Date and Date Register
Closed are critically important because certain voters
might be excluded from voting depending on these dates. If either
of these dates is changed after book closing or precinct register
generation, you must regenerate book closing totals and precinct registers.
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Election Classification |
The election classification |
FVRS |
The election number on FVRS. |
Lines per Register Page |
This option sets the number of voters listed per page on precinct registers: 12 or 18. The 12 line option is set automatically if your county uses the Spanish/English Dual Language setting in VOTER FOCUS ADMIN > System Options. Selecting Spanish/English Dual Language prints the Spanish oath alongside the English oath at the top of precinct register pages, hence the need for fewer lines per page. For a large |
Vote-By-Mail Options |
Select Vote-By-Mail Requests if mail ballots will be provided in this election. Select For
Mail Ballot elections only if the election is a mail ballot
election. An all mail ballot election lets you prepare mail ballots
for all voters without undergoing the Vote-By-Mail request process
or affecting the Vote-By-Mail status of voters. Selecting For Mail Ballot elections only
disables the Vote-By-Mail Requests Note: The
Advance Ballots option
is not commonly used. Florida law no longer allows for the delivery
of advance ballots. This option remains in Voter Focus for those
rare instances where a county needs them for a local election
or if, for some extraordinary reason such as a hurricane, proper
ballots are not ready and something must be sent to voters.
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Election Districts |
A display-only field that shows the |
Set Districts |
Opens the Election District Selection dialog where you can select the districts that will be participating in this election. (This button is disabled when you are creating an election; once you save the new election and return to the Election Maintenance dialog, the button is then enabled.) |
Election Status Code |
See Election's Status for an explanation of this feature. We recommend that, when you need to change an election's status, that you do so when on a quiet system. If you change an election's status when users are on the system, they will need to exit and restart the Voter Focus program in which they are working to see the parameters related to the election's new status. |
Change Status/Default |
Opens the Election Status dialog where you can change the election's status and make the election the default election throughout the Voter Focus system. See Election's Status for more information. |
Early Voting
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The early voting dates entered here control the availability of early voting features in Voter Focus for this election. Be sure that the dates you enter are accurate so that Voter Focus will be ready to record early voting activity on the correct dates. The early voting poll times are entered in the Start Time/End Time. |
Minor Parties in Primary Primary Party |
Appears when the election is
set to primary |
There are a number of system options that affect the behavior and management of elections. See VOTER FOCUS ADMIN > System Code Options > Prec Reg/Elctns.