Using the Admin Canvassing Dashboard Map

The admin canvassing dashboard map lets you manage a canvass without being in the field. From any canvass, click Open Canvass to launch a fullscreen map of every household in the canvass. From this map you can search for any voter or address, mark household statuses, and bulk-mark large areas by drawing a polygon.

This guide is for organization admins. Canvassers in the field use the mobile Vottiv Canvasser app instead.

Opening the Map

1. Log in to Vottiv and go to Door-to-Door Canvassing.
2. Click on the canvass you want to manage.
3. Click Open Canvass.

The map opens fullscreen and loads every household in the canvass. Single-unit households appear as colored dots; apartment buildings and other multi-unit addresses appear as purple building icons.

What the Dot Colors Mean

• Purple: Uncanvassed
• Light gray: Canvassed
• Dark: No Answer
• Red: Declined
• Blue with ring: Currently selected

Searching for a Household

Click the magnifying-glass icon in the header to open the household search panel.

• Search by voter name, address, or both.
• Click a result to fly the map to that location and open the household details.

Marking a Single Household

1. Click on any household dot. A side panel opens with the household details and the voters at that address.
2. Choose a canvass outcome. Outcomes available from the dashboard include Canvassed, No Answer, Declined, Inaccessible, Gated Community, Unsafe, Non-English, Incorrect Location, Moved, and Deceased.
3. For Moved or Deceased, pick the specific voter the status applies to.
4. Click the status button.

Most outcomes are household statuses. When you mark a household outcome such as Canvassed, No Answer, or Declined, the dot color updates immediately and everyone else viewing the canvass sees the change live.

Moved and Deceased are voter-level statuses. Marking a voter Moved or Deceased unsubscribes that voter from your organization’s messaging and tags them accordingly, so they stop receiving texts and calls and drop out of outreach segments.

If the selected voter is the only voter at that household, the household can also be marked with that outcome and the map status can update. If there are other residents at the same address, Vottiv does not mark the whole household as Moved or Deceased, does not repaint the household dot, and does not broadcast a household status update. Other residents at the same address are left unchanged.

If a multi-resident household itself also needs a canvass outcome, choose a household status separately.

Multi-Unit Buildings

Apartment buildings appear as purple building icons. Click a building to see the list of units, then choose a unit to mark its status. Use the Back to units link to return to the building's unit list and move on to the next apartment.

Bulk-Marking an Area

If you need to update a large area at once, use bulk mode.

Starting Bulk Mode

1. In the modal header, click Bulk select. This button only appears once the canvass's bulk-selection data is ready, usually within a couple of minutes after the canvass is created.
2. The map enters polygon-drawing mode. Normal click-to-select on individual households is suspended while you draw.
3. Click on the map to drop polygon points around the area you want to mark. Click your starting point again to close the polygon.

Reviewing the Selection

The side panel shows count-only previews so you know what will change before you submit:

• Selected: every household inside your polygon, including all units of any multi-unit building.
• Eligible to update: the households that will actually be updated.
• Skipped already marked: households that already have a status other than Uncanvassed. By default they are left alone.

Applying the Status

1. Choose an outcome from the dropdown. Allowed bulk outcomes are Canvassed, No Answer, Declined, Inaccessible, Gated Community, Unsafe, Non-English, and Incorrect Location.
2. If you want to overwrite households that already have a status, toggle Overwrite already-marked households. It is off by default.
3. Click Apply. The map dots repaint immediately, and a confirmation toast shows how many households were updated and how many were skipped.
4. To start over without saving, click Cancel. The polygon is cleared and bulk mode exits.

Why Moved and Deceased Are Not in the Bulk List

Moved and Deceased apply to a specific voter, not to an address. Bulk mode operates at the household level, so those two statuses can only be set one household at a time using the single-household flow above.

Limits

• Up to 5,000 households can be updated in a single bulk submission. If your polygon covers more than that, draw a smaller area or run the update in batches.
• Households whose address has no recorded coordinates and no prior canvass status cannot be created via bulk; the request will reject in that case. This matches single-household admin behavior.

Real-Time Updates

Household status changes you make from the dashboard map, whether single-household or bulk, are broadcast to every other open canvass map immediately. Canvassers in the field using the mobile app and other admins viewing the same canvass on the web see household dots repaint in real time without refreshing.

For Moved and Deceased, only single-resident household updates behave as household map statuses. Multi-resident household updates remain voter-level compliance updates.

Tips

• Use bulk mode at the end of a canvass day to mark whole sections that were finished offline.
• Default behavior, skipping already-marked households, is the safest choice. Only enable overwrite when you are intentionally replacing existing data.
• If the Bulk select button is missing, the canvass's bulk-selection data may still be generating. Close and reopen the canvass after a couple of minutes.
• Bulk mode is dashboard-only. Canvassers in the mobile app continue to mark households one at a time.