This option provides a tool to select one of the fields available in the database from a picklist, select the Boolian connector you want to use and then in the large text box enter a value or list of values you want to use in your query.  For instance, you could select ZIP CODE from the Picklist, select "exactly equal to" as your connector and then Copy/Paste into the text box a list of zipcodes from excel or word and then click to add to your query.  Whilte you car use the option under Jurisdiction to find the ssame list of zipcodes, using custom search speeds up and simplifies the process.  

If you select a field such as City or Municipality and are searching for an entity that contains two words.  Ex. Los Angeles you will need to put quotation marks around your datapoint in order that the system search for the full name "Los Angeles".  In general If your search item contains a comma or space, enclose the entire item within double quotes. (e.g. If you are looking for Maryland City, specify "Maryland City").

For "partially contain" operations, you can use wildcard characters to search for data.
(Searches including wildcard must be enclosed in double quotes)

You can also use this option to query on fields not available in other locations/menus within VLO.  

For example:

If you have selected a County and added it to your query and and would like to see a breakout of voters by zipcode.  Your net step would be to select BREAKOUT from left menu, click in the top search box and type zip  -- you will be presented on screen with all available fields in the data that include the word zip.  You would select ZIP / Residence Zip Code. An alternative is to scroll through the entire alpha ordered list of available fields and make your selection by placing a checkmark in the box onscreen and click the button labeled BREAKOUT.  

Displayed at the bottom of the screen will be a list of all possible values for that field along with the count for each. (This list will be predicated on query selections you have previously made. For example if you chose one zipcode your values and counts will reflect ONLY records found in your selected zipcode.

If the top line displays a count but no values this is a count of records with no code in the selected field. Each of the following lines will be a value with the corresponding count of records.   Our Data Dictionary can provide the English translations if needed for displayed values.  A link to our dictionary is found on every State Summary page as well as here in FAQs.

At this point you can generate a Breakout Spreadsheet by clicking the Excel icon on the bottom tool bar and/or add selected records to a Snippet or add to your Query. 

Custom Search Breakout is a good tool for viewing what the actual data looks like in a field. Particularly useful when searching for Precincts, Wards, Precinct Names and other down ballot datapoints.

You can generate these summary stats by each of the various count types:

• Unique Individual
• Unique Household
• Unique Address
• Unique Phone
• Unique Household Phone
• Unique Mobile Phone
• Unique Household Mobile Phone
• Unique All Phones
• Unique Email
• Unique Household Email
• Unique Address Phone
• Unique Address Mobile

Step 1 – Select Count Type (see list above) from onscreen menu

Step 2 – Select Fields to use for Columns/Rows

• Use the FIND A FIELD text box to type in the field name and select the appropriate option or scroll down the list (list is in alpha order) to find your field
• Add the field to either ROW or COLUMN by one of two methods
  • Drag and Drop when you see the Green Checkmark
  • Highlight the field (when highlighted it will turn Orange) and click the Green Plus Sign to add the field to the appropriate location (COLUMN/ROW)
• It is possible to have multiple ROWS/COLUMNS fields

Step 3 – Click the EXECUTE button to Create your Pivot Table

Step 4 – Select your output option – HTML or Excel and Click to Output your table.

NOTES: 

• Blank Rows or Columns indicate no values for that particular cell/group of cells
• Options for Full Screen view, Clearing Pivot options, Refreshing the display and Viewing the underlying Query are available on left side of screen above the list of fields

EXAMPLE:  Suppose you have generated a count of unique phone numbers statewide with a certain criteria set and within this criteria set you wish to see summary counts by county and political party.

1. Select “Phone” from the count type dropdown if you wish to count only unique phones in your summary counts.
2. Select County from the field list and drag it/add it to your ROW option
3. Select Party Code from the field list and drag it/add it to your COLUMN option
4. Click the “EXECUTE” button.
   1. When the results are generated, they will display onscreen with the county codes down the left side of the grid and the party codes across the top in a cross-tabular format.
5. Click your OUTPUT format preference to create your file. (Excel or HTML)

Users who create accounts for VLO have access to Matchit by clicking the link on the left menu

Users who create accounts for Matchit (using the Matchit registration page) has access to Matchit only.  This is by design and related to legal issues around accessing Voter Data.  

For Both sites - Username is NOT case sensitive but PASSWORD IS CASE SENSITIVE.

In order to receive Password reset emails your InBox must recognize the address vlo@aristotle.com as a safe sender. In some cases this address may be blocked even before it is sent to your Spam folder. 

On the left menu under UPLOADS there are options for

• Individual Suppression
• Phone Suppression
• Mobile Suppression
• Email Suppression
• Address Suppression

• Clicking any one of these options opens a page providing instructions on how to upload your file.
• All files need to be in text format (extension .txt)
• You can select one or more states to use in your suppression upload.
• The Dedupe/Suppression features can be used with our Voter and Consumers Databases
• You can “Add” as many files as you want to your upload. Once you have added all the files you want to use you must click the GREEN “SEND NOW” button to complete the upload and send your file(s) to our server.
• The uploaded files will be matched against our files and you will receive an Email Notification once the upload is completed that will indicate how many of your records matched to our database.
• The matching Count Type at the top of the page will reflect counts including the Dedupe file.  Example: if you upload a Mobile Phone dedupe file, the Unique Mobiles Count will reflect the number of mobiles in our databased on your query minus the mobiles we matched to in your uploaded suppression list.
• Important to note that it is likely that not all of your phones, addresses, emails will match to records found in our databases.  Your email notification will let you know how many did match.

1.No polling sample - All records fitting the selected criteria are exported.

2.Random Sample - The user enters the number of records they wish to export, for example 5,000. All the records fitting the select criteria are assigned a random number and ordered by this random number. The first 5,000 records (per this example) would then be selected for export.

3.Targeted Random Sample - The user selects a target field, for example congressional district. By clicking on the “allocate” button, the application will display the list of values in the selected field and count of available records per each. Using the congressional district example, all of the congressional districts and the count of records per each one meeting the selected criteria would be displayed. The user then goes through the list and enters the number of records per each congressional district they wish to pull. For example, the user might want 1,000 records from each congressional district. The final file will consist of the total number of records selected by the user, allocated as the user specifies based on the target field selected.

4.Cluster Sample with target group of - Records fitting the selected criteria are ordered using a geographic sort. The user then selects the number of clusters they wish to pull, and how many records should be in each cluster (cluster size). For example, the user may specify 100 clusters of 25 records each (for a total of 2500 records). The records fitting the selected criteria would then be segmented into 100 clusters, and the top 25 records from each cluster will be selected for export. (Note that if you choose to export voters instead of households, you will very likely get multiple members of each household as they will be ordered together geographically).

5. Cluster Sample with target group of --fieldname- - Performs the same as a cluster sample with no target group defined, except that when a target group is selected the application will pull the requested number of clusters per each value in the target field. For example, if the user specifies 100 clusters with a size of 25 with a target group of “congressional district”, the application will pull 100 clusters of size 25 for each available congressional district in the sample universe. Thus if the user has a query defined which contains three different congressional districts, the final pull would be 7500 records instead of 2500 if no target group were selected.

6. Normalized Random Sample - The Normalized Random Sample option allows the user to make a random pull proportioned according to the counts of available records in a group of selected target fields. For example a user might wish to generate a 25,000 record sample normalized by gender and party. In this case the user would enter the total number of records desired (in this case 25,000) and then select which clauses in their query should define the universe from which to base the normalized sample. If the user does not select any clauses, the universe will consist of the entire population of non-moved/non-dead records in the state(s) being queried. To normalize on gender and party the user would then select gender and party from the list of fields. The pull is made by first counting the numbers of each gender and party combination in the defined universe, and then making a proportionate pull based on those percentages to arrive at the total number of records requested.

Pricing for Samples is by record.

- click the "Checkout" button

- Follow the checkout process to Step 3 - Sample

• Login to your Account at www.voterlistsonline.com
• Click on the My Account Tab
• On the right side of the displayed screen select the date range you are interested in
• Click GENERATE REPORT button
• Click either the PDF or Excel icon (under the generate report button) to open the version you want.
• This will display all files generated and downloaded by your account during that time period.

• Ward,
• Precinct (prec_no1)
• Zipcode (zip)
• Pre DIrection (pre_dir)
• Street Name (st_name)
• Street Suffix (st_suff)
• Odd/Even Address  (odd_ev_add)
• House # & Apt #
• Last Name (lastname)
• First Name (firstname)

It is also an option to output your excel (csv) file in Walk List order. 

Keep in mind that the vote history data vary greatly and in some regions are not available at all.

For some names, we can't be sure (Pat, Chris, etc.), and for uncommon names, we simply don't know.fi and hence the field is left blank.

• Link to the Data Dictionary
• Link to Vote History Mapping Spreadsheet
• Link to Vote History Spreadsheet
• Link to online Video Tutorial
• Information on Source Data Fields
• Statistics for Current File

And in some states links to outside resources for help in determining districts.

The registrar and the NCOA processing may indicate a mail or home address other than inside the registrar assigned district. Individuals who may have moved, re-registered or been removed from the registrars list since the time of acquisition may still be present on this list.

VLO does not perform any re-assignment of districts. If you chose to “Exclude Movers”, normally the default, VLO will exclude individuals who have been identified by the Aristotle NCOA process as moving irrespective of the nature of the move. This may not exclude all non-district individuals.

Y = Voted

A = Absentee Voter

E = Early Voter

D = Democrat

M = Democrat Early Voter

Z = Democrat Absentee Voter

R = Republican

P = Republican Early Voter

X = Republican Absentee Voter

• AGE is a calculated field which uses several different sources to determine a hard age for the voter as of the date the file was processed.
• AGE INDICATOR is a calculated field using AGE to create Age Bands for use in selecting ranges of voters
• AGE SOURCE is a field containing a code that lets you know how we calculated the AGE.
• BIRTH DATE is from the source only - and can be a full Birth Date or a year only.
• DATE OF BIRTH comes from our match to consumer data and can be self reported but not always
• DATE OF BIRTH RANGE is a calculated field based on DATE OF BIRTH

So any given voter may cross into one age range and out of another on their birthday. From day to day, these will not change dramatically, though.

The information gained from Voterlistsonline.com is not to be considered a consumer report (as that term is defined in the Fair Credit Reporting Act 15 U.S.C. sec 1681) and may not be used to determine a consumer's eligibility for credit or insurance for personal, family or household purposes, employment or a government license or benefit.

For further information about each state’s authorized use of the voter data, please refer to the following list:

Local Districts - available on some states under the Jurisdiction menu

Click on the option that best suits your needs.

Under Jurisdiction it is also possible to use Mail City/Zip and Resident City/Zip in order to help locate your voters although these are not political subdivisions but rather USPS designations.

If none of these give you the political geography you need then you can use our "Custom Search" option in order to search any of the fields available in our database for the state you are using. Whether fields are populated with data or not varies state by state.

Those who match on at least FIRSTNAME, LASTNAME and BIRTHDATE are excluded from the output. Although it's possible for us to mark someone as dead when they actually are not, the great benefit of this feature is that you will not be calling or mailing hundreds or thousands of voters who are very likely to be no longer with us.

If this is provided by the source and not assigned by Aristotle during the address update enhancement process, the voter will not be designated as a "mover" on the voter file.

For example, many jurisdictions often list residence addresses outside of their own jurisdiction as well, not just mailing addresses. For instance, military and “federal only” registered voters can have foreign addresses, as well as many states just having residence address marked in another state.

Our Householding method relies on the fact that the statewide voter file has been processed for Householding already. During this process, each record is assigned a Household number unique within each county.

Members of a common Household are assigned the same Household number if they are determined to be in the same Household. NOTE: Generally, voters are considered to be in the same Household if they share the following in common: home ZIP, home street name, home pre-direction, home post direction, home house number, last name and home apartment number.

To get a count of Unique Households check the Unique Households count option on the right side toolbar on VLO 2.0. To Purchase a Householded File (one voter per household) select “Households” in Step Two of the Purchase process.

• At the top of the screen select  the “Unique Households” and/or the “Unique Addresses” count type.  You can get counts for both and decide which one to purchase when you checkout.
  • Unique Household gives you one record per Last name + USPS Address 
  • Unique Address gives you one record per USPS Address
• On the Left Menu select Mail/Email option
• Click on the Certified Addresses only option and place a check mark in the displayed box.
  • This limits your selection to addresses that have been standardized and have Zip +4 
• Two other options are available to help you target your mail even further
  • In State Mail Addresses only - this option allows you to limit your selection to records where the mail address is within the same state as the Home Address. Check the box to select this option.
  • Address Type  of Zip Code 5+4  - You can select any of the listed options to limit your selection to just those types of addresses.
• Each time you make a selection remember to either UPDATE QUERY or SNIP IT .