Import Tabulation Totals from ES&S Unity

View a flowchart of the ES&S tabulation-import process.

Before the voting history for an election can be updated, State law requires counties to reconcile the number of voters that were checked-in with the totals from their ballot tabulation system. By doing a reconciliation, you ensure that all voters who voted will get credit for doing so, and that no register pages were missed during the post-election swiping process. Any differences between the two sets of totals should be rectified. If this is not possible, the reasons for the differences should be clearly understood and documented as part of the election record. Once this reconciliation is complete, the voting history update can be processed using Voter Focus.

Voter Focus provides an automated comparison of tabulation totals with the totals accumulated by the various voter check-in mechanisms in Voter Focus—that is, mail ballot returns, check-ins of early voters (through the Counter program or via EViD stations), swiped precinct registers, the non-register records of those who voted at the polls on election day, and those who voted by provisional ballot. To run this automated comparison, your county's tabulation vendor must be capable of producing a tabulation results export file that can be read by Voter Focus.