Precincts

A precinct is a discrete geographic region within a county whose voters who are eligible to vote in most, if not all, of the same combination of districts. Precincts typically contain between 1,000 and 3,000 voters.

A county's precincts are defined by the Supervisor of Elections and reported to the Division of Elections. Once a precinct's boundaries are defined, they are rarely changed except during the statutory redistricting period following the 10-year census. However, a precinct can be subdivided between redistricting efforts to produce one or more precinct splits.

In your county's Voter Focus database, each precinct has a record, which is designated by a precinct ID. Precincts are defined and maintained in STREETS AND PRECINCTS > Precincts Maintenance. Maintenance includes selecting the districts in which the precinct lies. See How to Set Up Districts if all your districts have not yet been defined.

Once a precinct record is in the database, you use STREETS AND PRECINCTS > Street Maintenance to assign each street segment within the precinct's boundaries to the precinct. Voters residing on those street segments are then automatically assigned to the corresponding precinct, and you will see their precinct and district assignments on their voter record.

When setting up an election, you define which precincts are voting in the election and assign a ballot style to each voting precinct. Voter Focus can then associate the correct ballot style to each voter for the purposes of voting by mail, ballot printing, and reporting on turnout by precinct.