Quick Look Up (QLU)



Benefits of using Quick Look Up    1

How to use QLU    2

Access QLU    2

Use QLU to find someone    3

Customize QLU displays    4



Benefits of using Quick Look Up

  • Quick Look Up allows you to quickly see someone’s personal information including their contact information and a quick link to their voter profile for more details, including their voting record.  You might use it to look up someone’s primary voting history or get their contact information for purposes such as block walking or voter outreach.


  • If you click on their name (displayed in blue), you will go directly to their VAN profiles, which provides a range of information about them (e.g.,  Scores, Voting History, Early Voting, etc).

    • If you are recruiting volunteers for your campaign, you may want to vet individuals and make sure they are Democrats. You can check this by going to their primary voting history under Voting History or their TDP Partisanship score under Scores. 


How to use QLU

Access QLU

  • You can find QLU in the sidebar menu on the left side of your screen.


Use QLU to find someone

  • If you have someone’s VANID or State Voter ID, just use that only. If not, follow the tips below

  • When it comes to finding someone in QLU, remember the “less is more” rule -- the less information you’re entering in, the more likely you will find the person you are looking for. 

    • We recommend that you use some kind of a combination between Last Name, First Name, DOB, Street Address, or Zip -- but not all of them. VAN will look for someone who matches with the exact information that you are putting in, so if there is one error -- say, a wrong apartment number -- then that person will be filtered out and you will not see them on display. 

  • If you cannot find someone at the first try, try again by entering a different set of information. 


Customize QLU displays

  • You can customize which information about a person is showing up on your QLU page by clicking on the cogwheel symbol near the top-right corner of your screen. 

  • Once clicked, you will be brought to the Settings page. Here, you can adjust the number of rows of people being displayed -- we recommend you max it out to 999 to avoid missing names. 

  • You should also see "Columns in the List (In Order)" and "Columns not in the List." The former is the information currently being shown, the latter is not. You can add, remove, and arrange the order of visible boxes by dragging them to your likings. 

  • Once done, click Save Changes.