Used in request and response messages. Voter optionally includes this class to describe a voter’s classification per criteria on the voter’s request form, e.g., united-states-citizen or eighteen-on-election-day. VoterClassification includes assertions of the voter in response to the voter request form criteria. For example, an assertion of true may be used with a criterion of united-states-citizen. Assertions can be negative, such as providing an assertion of false for a criterion of felon, an assertion of unknown to indicate that the voter does not know whether they meet or do not meet the specific criteria on the form or an assertion of other, in which the assertion is specified by the value of OtherAssertion . Attribute Multiplicity Type Attribute Description Assertion 1 AssertionValue A positive, negative, other or unknown assertion OtherAssertion 0..1 String An locally defined assertion value. Type 1 VoterClassificationType A classification type, e.g., felon. OtherType 0..1 String Used when Type value is other.
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Used in request and response messages. Voter optionally includes this class to describe a voter’s classification per criteria on the voter’s request form, e.g., united-states-citizen or eighteen-on-election-day. VoterClassification includes assertions of the voter in response to the voter request form criteria. For example, an assertion of true may be used with a criterion of united-states-citizen. Assertions can be negative, such as providing an assertion of false for a criterion of felon, an assertion of unknown to indicate that the voter does not know whether they meet or do not meet the specific criteria on the form or an assertion of other, in which the assertion is specified by the value of OtherAssertion . Attribute Multiplicity Type Attribute Description Assertion 1 AssertionValue A positive, negative, other or unknown assertion OtherAssertion 0..1 String An locally defined assertion value. Type 1 VoterClassificationType A classification type, e.g., felon. OtherType 0..1 String Used when Type value is other.
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Election Security Glossary. (2026). Voterclassification. In Election Security Glossary. Retrieved August 22, 2026, from https://electionsecurityglossary.com/glossary/voterclassification
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