What is a Group?

Groups have two primary purposes:

• To change the default sort order of the contents in the Election Summary View to a customized sort order.
  

• To restrict the vote totals in the Election Summary View to include only a group A group serves two primary purposes: 1) to change the default sort order of the contents in the Election Summary View to a customized sort order, and 2) to restrict the vote totals in the Election Summary View to includes only a group of user-specified precincts. of user-specified precincts.
  
  

In the Integra Election Reporting Console, there are two types of groups:

Contest Groups - Used primarily to create a custom sort order of contests in the Election Summary View, this group A group serves two primary purposes: 1) to change the default sort order of the contents in the Election Summary View to a customized sort order, and 2) to restrict the vote totals in the Election Summary View to includes only a group of user-specified precincts. is also used to create permanent groups for federal, state, or local contests, or other contest groupings.

Precinct Groups - Precinct groups are used to create permanent groupings of precincts that will display totals for each contest that include only the vote totals from the precincts within the group A group serves two primary purposes: 1) to change the default sort order of the contents in the Election Summary View to a customized sort order, and 2) to restrict the vote totals in the Election Summary View to includes only a group of user-specified precincts.. Such groups can help to see the real picture of how people in a town cast their election votes.