Information
on Texas Voter
Activation Network (VAN)
The
Texas Voter Activation
Network (VAN) is a database of all registered voters.
It contains information for the registered
voter such as:
- Name
-
Addresses:
street and mailing
- Phone
numbers: home, mobile, and work
- Email
addresses
- Voter
history: in what year they voted, both primary and general elections
- Activist
codes
- Other
demographic information, such as
- age,
-
gender,
-
reported
ethnicity
As
a Democratic Party
Precinct Chair, you are entitled to access VAN information in your
precinct. The VAN’s benefits go two
ways. You receive information about your
voters, and in turn, you should update information that you find for
your
voters so others in the Democratic Party can benefit. Precinct Chairs
should update voter information from the 2008 Precinct Convention
sign-in sheets into the VAN. PDF files of these sheets are
available in the BCDP office, but the file of the precinct will be
emailed to the Precinct Chairs who have email addresses.
Other
users of the VAN
include candidates and elected officials. Your
updates in addresses, phone numbers, and
email addresses help candidates to spend their limited campaign funds
wisely to
reach potential supporters.
Register
for an Account
Important
VAN Features
Individual
voter look up: use Quick Look
Up on the Main Menu.
Use first and last name, or any of the provided items to find
all
registered voters with those criteria.
For
reports and labels: use Create
a New List.
1) First
select Bexar as the County. Then select
your precinct in the Precinct
drop-down list.
2)
Hit
the Search button on the upper right corner of the
page for a list of all the registered voters, or narrow your list by
any of the
demographic information on the page, including Voting History.
3) On
the My List page, select the Reports icon. On
the Print Report page, use the drop-down
list to select items. The “Voter History
List” report format is the most compact, with one voter per line. Source can be Calling or Walking list. You can type a unique name for your list.
4) Uncheck
all of the page break options as well as the
option to print page numbers to save space.
Select “Next” on the lower right corner of the page.
5) The
next page gives important instructions on setting up
your page options to print properly.
Select “Finish” in the lower right corner of the page, and your
report
appears.
6) You
may print the report or paste it to a spreadsheet.
Using
the List in a Spreadsheet
On
the report page, hold the Ctrl button and hit the letter “A” to
highlight the
entire report. Then hit Ctrl-C to copy
the report. Paste the report to your
spreadsheet, such as Excel.
From
the Texas Democratic Party
The Texas
Democratic Party (TDP) is
proud to provide a statewide online Voter File to candidates, county
parties,
precinct chairs, and others. The TDP Online Voter File includes current
voting
history and is updated several times a year to check addresses,
telephone
number, and to incorporate the most recent lists of registered voters.
The TDP
will continue to maintain this important resource after each election
and we
will notify users as changes occur.
Limitations
Data,
lists, and any
products derived from the data may be used only to help organize and
elect
Democratic candidates. Voter File data may not be used for personal,
commercial
or other non-electoral purposes.
Voter
File data is
also restricted to helping organize and recruit Democratic votes for
partisan
elections and may not be used to support Republican, or Independent
candidates
in partisan elections or any candidates in non-partisan elections.
Non-Candidate
Users (i.e. SDEC members, county chairs, precinct chairs, state party
Sustaining Members / contributors, and approved groups) are not
permitted to
print lists or labels or provide data to any candidate.
Individual
VAN training in
your home, or at the BCDP office at 3010 N St Mary’s, is being offered
by the
Precinct Chair Recruitment Committee. To
schedule training, please contact the office at 210 785-0962.