Qualified Voter File

Michigan’s Qualified Voter File, or QVF, is the statewide voter-registration and election-management database used to connect election officials with voter records. It maintains records for qualified and registered voters and supports election administration across the state. The QVF is Michigan-specific, so the acronym can mean something different in other contexts.

The Michigan QVF maintains voter-registration records, including a unique voter identifier and address history used to manage a voter’s current registration. Election officials also use the system for election-administration functions and participation records. It records whether a voter participated, not the voter’s private choices for candidates or ballot questions.

No. Michigan says the QVF uses a unique Voter ID for each voter and allows only one ballot to be accepted for that voter in an election. Address-history records can create multiple historical address entries, but those entries do not represent multiple active voters or permission to cast more than one ballot.