Guidelines for Voter Lists

Voter List Details

Any commonly used format is acceptable, including:

• Excel
• CSV (Comma Separated Value) files
• Access, SQL or any other commonly used database programs.

Formats we cannot accept are proprietary database formats, files using unreadable characters as column delimiters or files created using old versions of software no longer supported by their creators.

The data file uploaded must adhere to the following guidelines:

• The file must be created/edited using any of the acceptable formats listed above.
• The file must have a maximum of 5 columns. Two of these must be username and password. The other three columns are for first name, last name and email.
• The first row of the data file must be labeled: username, password, firstname, lastname and email.
• None of the fields can contain "special characters" that include: apostrophes (’), double quotes ("), #, %, comma (,), <, >, or period signs (.)
• If the data file is in a text format (such as a CSV file), make sure that commas separate your columns and the correct number are used in each row.
• Caution: Importing from your database program into a worksheet may cause the worksheet program to drop "leading zeros" if any are in your file (for example, zip codes with a leading zero (01234) may be imported as 1234)
• There is no limit on the length of the file (i.e. number of rows).