1. How To Convert To The City District Structure
By Darlene Walker
Flagler County

2. Getting Map Ready Need a plan Cities abbreviations
Cities numbering scheme
Cities with no districts voted at large
Cities with districts voted by districts
Cities with districts voted at large

3. Making Block Table Changes
Query each city and change city number and WRD or CWD column to your new naming scheme

5. Use Current Block Table

7. City With Districts Voted At Large
551 is City 5 and District 1

8. City With Districts Voted At Large
552 is City 5 and District 2

9. Update CWD or WRD Column

10. Update CWD or WRD Column
Make sure you have correct column

11. Build New GEPARTS Table
Open GEPARTS table
Table
Maintenance – Rename
Add old to the name
Save

12. Block Table Open your current block table Go Table Update Column
Table to Update - select your block table
Column to Update - Select Grp
Get Value from Table – select block table
Value: put in “” (quote quote) this will leave your Grp column blank

14. Build New Grp Table Go to GeoElections Mapmaker Precinct and Grp
Name as GEPARTS
This will put your numbering back to .0,.0,.2 for your precinct groups
Check your precincts to see if they are how they need to be
Your ready to test in VR

15. Getting VR Side Ready To Test Districts
System Maintenance
System Code Tables
Districts - District Types
Look to make sure you have CTY and WRD or CWD setup already

16. Getting VR Side Ready To Test Districts
Click on Districts
District _Type – scroll to WRD or CWD (this list will be your old numbers, you need to add your new

17. District Number = WRD or CWD City Code is your City Number
Description could by City Name
Short Description is what’s printed on voter cards

18. Print Precinct Parts
Open Voters – cancel search screen – voters-reports – Precinct List for One District

19. Print Precinct Parts (con’t)
District Type – select CTY
District Number – select city number that’s changing

20. Print Precinct Parts (con’t)
These are all the parts to City 5, which is district 1

21. Reassigning Precinct Parts
Go to the Precinct Module
Precinct Maintenance
Select Precinct from list and OK
Select Precinct and group number from list (double click)
Change WRD or CWD number to match new naming scheme, by selecting down arrow and picking the correct number
Do this for all Precinct Parts affected

22. Delete Old Out of Districts
10th Annual GeoElections Conference
Delete Old Out of Districts
System Maintenance
System Code Tables
Districts
Select WRD or CWD from drop down
One at a time delete old

23. Do not be surprised when you go and delete an old District Number, that it tells you that you still have precinct parts attached to it. Someone from VR will have to manually remove those precinct parts for you. We still had precincts that were deleted from the system 2 years ago.