System Options—Precinct Register/Elections

Print Oath and Voter Name upside down—Prints your precinct registers with bar codes and with voter names and signatures printed upside down. To use this option, you must be printing precinct registers to a good quality laser printer that has a Windows printer driver. Upside down printing of the oath and voter name allows both the poll worker and the voter to use the register at the same time, without having to rotate it 180 degrees.

Print Mark Sense Oval on Register—Includes a mark sense oval——next to the voter's signature box on the printed precinct register. In counties using optical scan machines for vote tabulation, voters mark the oval in the register to confirm that they understand how to cast their votes.

Export Precinct Register for Outside Printing—Creates a file that you can send to a commercial vendor for the printing of precinct registers.

Separate Register for Suspense Voters—Prints separate precinct registers for Suspense voters. Having a separate register at the polling place lets poll workers direct these voters to the Clerk, who will require the signing of an affirmation before the voter is allowed to vote. If you do not select this option, Suspense voters are listed in precinct registers along with Active voters.

Supplement Shows Ballot By Mail requests and voting only—Allows you to take a different approach to register supplements. When selected, the supplements list only those voters who:

• Have requested a mail ballot but have not returned the ballot.
• Have already voted by mail.
• Have already early voted.

Incremental Supplement Reports—Generates precinct register supplements that exclude the changes that were printed in previous supplements. This option is intended for counties that keep precinct registers up-to-date in the elections office prior to sending the registers to the polling places.

To generate supplements showing all changes made since the precinct register was generated, clear the check box.

This option is automatically turned on when the option Use Supplement Labels is selected.

Print Mark Sense Arrow—Includes a mark sense arrow——next to the voter's signature box on the printed precinct register. In counties using optical scan machines for vote tabulation, voters mark the arrow in the register to confirm that they understand how to cast their votes.

Print Sigs on Register—Enables printing of voter signature clips on the register next to the voter signature box for comparison purposes.

Use Supplement Labels—Formats the Changes section of register supplements for printing on label sheets (size 80 labels per sheet). A label is printed for each voter who had a change in voting status. Note that labels are not printed for voters who became ineligible because they moved out of the precinct/county or are deceased. The printed labels can then be affixed to the precinct register, saving workers the effort of handwriting the change. This option forces use of the option Incremental Supplement Reports.

Deliver Ballot By Mail to Suspense Voters—Allows for Suspense voters to be included in the Deliver Ballots run. Per Texas rule, a voter with Suspense status is eligible to vote in an election provided the voter completes a Statement of Residence either when voting by mail or at the polls prior to voting (in the same county as the voter’s current registration) or (if the voter has moved to a new county) completes a Limited Ballot application during Early Voting at the main early voting polling place. The Deliver Ballots run automatically schedules a Statement of Residence for Suspense voters and does not update the Suspense voter status.

Tabulation System Vendor—Select your tabulation vendor. The options are:

0, Not Declared

1, Dominion

2, ES&S

3, Sequoia

This setting controls the appearance of the Tabulation Sys Exports button on the Election Maintenance dialog and the Import Ballot Styles button on the List of Ballot Styles dialog, and the underlying functions of both.

If you do not see your tabulation vendor, contact VR Systems.

Default Starting Ballot Number—When a user creates a new ballot style (ELECTIONS > Maintain Election Settings > Ballot Styles > Set Up Ballot Styles), the number entered here is the default next ballot number.

Send Files to Voter Information Project—Automatically sends election precinct and polling place data to the Voter Information Project.

Report Provisionals—Reports provisional votes separately in Turnout QuickView. If left unchecked, this option will combine provisional votes with Mail/Early Voting/Election Day votes.