Create a New Polling Place or Early Voting Site

This topic explains how to create a maintenance record for a new place in your system.

To create a new polling place:

Go to ELECTIONS > Place Maintenance.
On the Find Place dialog, click Cancel.
On the Place Maintenance dialog, click the New button in the tool bar. The Enter New Place Number dialog appears.
From the Place Type drop-down menu, select V,Precinct poll work.
In the Place Number field, enter an ID for the new polling place. Keep in mind that place IDs should be unique throughout Voter Focus. For example, you should not use A12 for both a polling place and an early voting site. Click OK.
The Place Maintenance dialog appears with the Information tab displayed.
Fill in the information on each tab, pressing F1 if you need help with a field or control.
Click Save.

To create a new early voting site:

Go to ELECTIONS > Place Maintenance.
On the Find Place dialog, click Cancel.
On the Place Maintenance dialog, click the New button in the tool bar. The Enter New Place Number dialog appears.
From the Place Type drop-down menu, select E,Early Voting work.
In the Place Number field, enter an ID for the new early voting site. Keep in mind that place IDs should be unique throughout Voter Focus. For example, you should not use A12 for both a polling place and an early voting site. Click OK.
The Place Maintenance dialog appears with the Information tab displayed.
Fill in the information on each tab, pressing F1 if you need help with a field or control. (The Categories, Precincts, and Election Overrides tabs do not apply to early voting sites.)
Click Save. If you have a VR Tower website and are using the Early Voting Location & Status module, it may take up to 2 hours before this new location appears on your web site. (The program that updates the website with this information is VRScheduler - UpdateWebHosting.exe, which runs every 20 minutes.)

To create a new election center:

Go to ELECTIONS > Place Maintenance.
On the Find Place dialog, click Cancel.
On the Place Maintenance dialog, click the New button in the tool bar. The Enter New Place Number dialog appears.
From the Place Type drop-down menu, select C,Election Center work.
In the Place Number field, enter an ID for the new election center. Keep in mind that place IDs should be unique throughout Voter Focus. For example, you should not use CEN for both an election center and an early voting site. Click OK.
The Place Maintenance dialog appears with the Information tab displayed.
Fill in the information on each tab, pressing F1 if you need help with a field or control. (The Categories, Precincts, and Election Overrides tabs do not apply to election centers.)
Click Save.

An alternate way to create a new place is to access an existing place of the type you want to create and then click New in the tool bar on the Place Maintenance dialog.