Run Integrity Check
To access: VOTER FOCUS ADMIN > Integrity Check Routine
The Integrity Check program examines the data in your Voter Focus database and creates a report indicating any irregularities, such as an invalid district code assigned to a precinct, a city with no city ward assignment, or election history that needs updating. The Integrity Check program should be run:
- at least once a month, or more often if you think problems might be occurring
- six weeks prior to an election
- prior to book closing
- before generating a precinct register
- after changing one or more precinct IDs
- to clean up overlapping street segments prior to redistricting
After running the program, it is important to print the report immediately and verify that no issues were detected. If issues are found, correct them and rerun the Integrity Check program until you get a clean report. Even a single error can lead to errors in other Voter Focus reports and perhaps even the failure to count an eligible voter as eligible to vote. See Reviewing the Integrity Check Report for a list of the issues that might be reported.
The Integrity Check program can be run while other users are on the system. However, because it is resource-intensive and usually runs over a period of several hours, we recommend you schedule the run after business hours so that users won't experience a dip in system performance.
To run the Integrity Check program:
- Go to VOTER FOCUS ADMIN > Integrity Check Routine. The Integrity Check Routine dialog appears with the first four options selected.
- Select or clear the check boxes
for the verifications you want to run and click OK.
- Districts in
Precincts Checks—Verifies
that each precinct is assigned to a valid District code for the standard
District Types
- Precinct Assignments in Streets—Checks that each Street Segment is assigned to a valid precinct (that is, a precinct that has an entry in the PRCM (Precinct) table). A Street Segment might have an invalid precinct if its precinct was, for some reason, deleted from the precinct table.
- Street Overlap Check—Verifies that there are no addresses that could exist in two Street Segments. This situation would lead to ambiguity in precinct assignment.
- Voter Addresses
and Values—Scans
the records of Active and Inactive voters for discrepancies in the address,
Party, Date of Birth,
- Districts in
Precincts Checks—Verifies
that each precinct is assigned to a valid District code for the standard
District Types
- When the program finishes, click Print to print the report; then review it carefully for errors.
As the program runs, the results will appear in the report pane, with the program’s progress noted in the bottom-left corner of the dialog.
The Restart button remains available until you print the report, as a reminder that this important step needs to be done. When the report has been printed, the button is disabled.
