Compliance center
What 'resolve' means when we do not have voter file access
Resolution is limited to your own consented first-party data plus a commercial identity graph. Deep voter-file matching requires a data partnership we have not signed.
Last updated 2026-08-28
The claim we are not making
Some visitor-identification vendors imply that they can tell you a visitor’s party registration, vote history, or district. Ballot Signal does not do that today. We are putting it on its own page, in plain language, because the alternative is letting a reasonable buyer assume otherwise.
What resolution actually is
When a consented visitor is resolved into a supporter record, the record is assembled from:
- Your own first-party data — anything this person previously gave you on your own site, matched by our dedupe key.
- First-party behavior on your site after consent — which pages, in what order, with what UTM parameters and referrer.
- A commercial identity graph — contact resolution against permissioned commercial data, which is what turns a consented visitor into a name and contact fields.
- Enrichment from your own connected systems — for example, giving history from your fundraising platform, matched by email.
What it is not
It is not a match against L2, TargetSmart, Data Trust or i360. Those relationships require commercial data agreements we have not signed, and until we do, the voter data category on this site says “partner-only” on every card.
Concretely, we do not provide: party registration, primary or general vote history, precinct or district assignment, party support scores, or modeled turnout scores.
What you can do about it today
If your organization already licenses a voter file, the supported path is to export from Ballot Signal and match inside your own environment, under your own license. That keeps your data license intact and keeps us out of the middle of a relationship we are not party to. CSV export is on every plan.
If your party database already holds voter-file-derived fields — NGP VAN, for instance — then writing our supporter record into that database gives you the join anyway, on your side of the fence. That is usually the right answer.
When this page changes
When a data partnership closes and is live, not when one is in discussion. The status badges will change on the same day this page does.
This is not legal advice
Voter file access is governed by state law and by the license terms of the provider, and both vary considerably. If you hold a voter file license, read it before matching anything against it.
Related
- Voter data integrations
- What you get — the full supporter record
- Platform
Elsewhere in the compliance center
TCPA & texting
Prior express written consent, A2P 10DLC registration with a political authorization token, and a consent record that carries the language, the timestamp, the source URL and the version.
State privacy laws
Only Texas and Virginia expressly exempt political organizations. Colorado and New Jersey exempt no nonprofits. Oregon, Maryland, Delaware and Minnesota have only narrow exemptions.
FEC & in-kind contributions
Under 11 CFR 100.52(d), services must be billed at the usual and normal charge — a commercially reasonable rate prevailing at the time. Discounts outside the ordinary course of business can become in-kind contributions.
CIPA & website tracking
Trackers that fire before consent are the core exposure. The Ninth Circuit held in Javier v. Assurance IQ that prior consent is required and retroactive consent is not enough.
See what your own website already knows.
Book a 20-minute walkthrough. We will look at your site's current consent posture first — that part is useful whether or not you buy anything.