Maintenance of Places

Use the Place Maintenance program to store information about the physical locations used for elections. These locations are categorized in the following place types:

Polling places—Locations where one or more precincts vote on election day. Precincts are assigned to a polling place within the polling place maintenance record. In Voter Focus, early voting sites are not considered polling places.

Early voting sites—Locations open during early voting.

Note: If you have a VR Tower website and are using the Early Voting Location & Status module, it may take up to 2 hours before new locations appears on your web site. (The program that updates the website with this information is VRScheduler - UpdateWebHosting.exe, which runs every 20 minutes.)

Election centers—Locations providing a support function to the voting locations, such as warehouses.

The ability to perform maintenance on the place types is permissioned in Voter Focus Admin, so you might not have access to one or more place types. (See Places User Permissions for details.) When you run the Places Maintenance program you are presented with a list of places on the Find Place dialog.

If you are granted access to more than one place type, you can filter the display by place type. In the list, you'll see only the place types for which you have permission.

Double-click a place row in the grid to open the record for that place on the Place Maintenance dialog.

The dialog consists of the following tabs. Click any of the tab names below to learn about the available options.

Information Finance
Contacts Audit
Inventory Delivery
Precincts (polling places only) Election Overrides (polling places only)
Categories (polling places only) Files

Important: The selections on the Precincts tab apply only to the election that is in focus. Before updating this tab, you must first ensure the correct election is in focus. To assign the precincts that normally vote at the polling place for another election, you must first change the focused election.

New

Opens the Enter New Polling Place Number dialog that allows you to add a place. For more information, see Create a New Place.

Find

Opens the Find Place dialog that allows you to search for and open another place record.

Save

Saves your changes to the place record.

Delete

Deletes the place from your system. You will be asked to confirm the deletion. If a polling place has precinct assignments, you must remove them before deleting the polling place.

Note: Rather than deleting a place, we suggest you mark the place as an Unused Place on the Place Maintenance dialog. This setting prevents the place from appearing in lists, but you will preserve its information should you ever need to reinstate it.

Prior/Next

Opens the maintenance record for the previous and next place in the list of places of the same type.

Print

Prints an image of the current dialog to your Windows printer.

Reports

Displays a list of the reports pertaining to places.

Utilities

Delivery Routes—Displays the delivery route and stops on the delivery route for one or more polling place locations.

Polling Place Categories—Opens the Polling Place Categories dialog listing the categories and codes currently in your system. For more information, see Create and Assign Polling Place Category Codes.

Polling Place Region Codes—Opens the Polling Place Region Code Maintenance dialog. For more information on this dialog, see Create and Assign Polling Place Region Codes.

Inventory Master List—Opens the Inventory Master List dialog that allows you to maintain the items that appear in the drop-down lists for places and precinct inventories.

Update Polling Place Coordinates—Updates the polling place GPS coordinates. For more information, see Update Polling Place Coordinates.