Intermediate VAN Users

User Accounts
User accounts are how individuals access your VAN Committee to do campaign or political work. You can create new user accounts in your committee for staf...
Fri, 26 Sep, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Auditing and Administering Users
Auditing and Administering VAN Users Make sure your left sidebar menu is open. If it’s not open, click on the hamburger icon in the top left corner: ...
Fri, 26 Sep, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Scores in VAN
Modeling/Scores The scores section of VAN is where we include modeling that predicts an individual voters’ likelihood of supporting a given candidate, c...
Wed, 4 May, 2022 at 1:04 PM
Survey Questions: I Need a New Or Edited Survey Question
You can fill out our Survey Question and Activist Code Request Form to request: New survey questions or activist codes Changes to existing survey questio...
Wed, 4 Jun, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Setting Up Lit Drops for MiniVAN
There's a way to set up the lit drop contact type that makes it really simple for canvassers and allows you to specify folks who were lit dropped in Cre...
Thu, 12 Oct, 2023 at 2:10 PM
Survey Questions: What's Available to Committees
Here are the Survey Questions available for committees: Local/Private Survey Questions: 20XX Candidate ID: Gauges support for the candidate 20XX Cand...
Wed, 4 Jun, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Field Data in Create a List
Field data is some of the most important and actionable information you can use in voter targeting.  VAN is a field database and contains all canvassing inf...
Thu, 29 Apr, 2021 at 7:42 PM
Home District/Address
Districts and voter addresses both come from the raw voter file. If a voter needs to update their address or district, they should contact their local clerk...
Thu, 6 May, 2021 at 12:46 PM
List Suppressions
VAN automatically applies certain suppressions when you create a list for voter contact. This excludes voters who may have moved or passed away, and drops c...
Thu, 6 May, 2021 at 12:43 PM
Sharing Folders With Other Users
Folders aren't shared by default, so there's an extra step you have to take to share those with other users in your committee.  While in a folder y...
Tue, 13 Jul, 2021 at 7:39 PM