List of Ballot Styles

To access: ELECTIONS > Maintain Election Settings > Ballot Styles > Set Up Ballot Styles

This dialog lets you create and maintain the ballot styles for an election. The top half of the dialog lists the ballot styles that are already created. To modify a ballot style, click to highlight it in the list and modify its options in the bottom half of the dialog.

Fields and Controls on this Dialog

Style—Displays the name of the selected ballot style. If you modify the ballot style name after precincts are assigned, the system automatically modifies the ballot style name for that ballot style's precinct assignments so you won't have to do that.

Style #—A number representing the sequence in which the ballot styles were created.

Party—Appears only when the election is a primary. The drop-down list shows the two major parties, and Npa (for no party affiliation voters). If minor parties are selected on the Election Maintenance dialog, those parties are also available for selection. Select the party to which this ballot style applies.

Description—Enter a brief description of the ballot style. This description appears on two internal reports (Ballot Style Assignments and Ballot Styles for Election) and in the Phone Bank and Voter Information Lookup programs. The description is included in Phone Bank and Voter Information Lookup for touchscreen counties who use the field to store button numbers.

Next Ballot Number—Ballot numbering for a ballot style begins with the number specified in VOTER FOCUS ADMIN > System Options > Prec Reg/Elctns > Default Starting Ballot Number. If no number is specified there, the number in this field is 1. You can change the number when you create a new ballot style or any time during the election cycle; for example, to skip a batch of ballots that were damaged. This number is incremented by the system when mail ballot labels/envelopes are produced to account for the ballot numbers assigned to those labels/envelopes.

Sequencen—Appears only for counties using the Relia-Vote system. See your Pitney Bowes representative for information on what should be entered into these fields.

Federal Election Style—If the election includes the U.S. presidential/vice presidential race, you will need to create a ballot style for mail ballot voters who moved out of Florida to another state after book closing for the election in their new state. (Florida statute entitles such voters to receive a mail ballot from their former Florida precinct. These voters must be designated by selecting the Fed Elections Only check box in the voter record.) The name for this ballot style can be anything up to five characters in length, but we suggest you use the name FED, or something similar, so the ballot style will be easy to find in reports.

To designate a ballot style as the one used for federal elections only voters, select the ballot style from the Federal Election Style drop-down list. The federal election ballot style will be the same for all precincts. Selection of a ballot style that is already assigned to a precinct is not permitted.

Import Unity Ballot Styles/Import GEMS Ballot Styles—The button label depends on your vendor for ballot printing and/or batch printing of mail ballots. Opens a dialog where you can import ballot styles from the vendor's system. See Ballot-Printing Setup for ES&S Unity or Ballot-Printing Setup for Dominion GEMS for instructions on the import process.

New Style—Creates a ballot style by entering the name for the new style. The name can consist of up to five letters and numbers. It should be consistent with your county's ballot style naming conventions, but please note our recommendation above that you include the precinct number in the ballot style name.

Delete Style—Deletes the selected ballot style from the election.

Close—Saves your ballot style work and closes the dialog.