Split a Street Segment

The split segment feature lets you divide one street segment into two. You'd want to split a segment should a precinct boundary be moved into the street segment. Using the split segment feature saves you from having to delete the street segment and create two new ones. Once the segment has been split, you can easily reassign either segment to its new precinct.

If your county has a GIS interface to Voter Focus, the splitting of street segments is handled for you when you import street data from the GIS system. If you do not have a GIS interface or you want to split a street segment between GIS imports, use the procedure described here.

To explain how to split a segment, we provide two examples.

EXAMPLE 1

The new precinct boundary intersects the street segment, leaving the first half of the house numbers in the old precinct and moving the other half to the new precinct.

EXAMPLE 2

The new precinct boundary runs down the middle of the street, putting the odd-numbered houses in a new precinct. The even-numbered houses remain in the old precinct.