Person

Person defines information about a person. The person may be a candidate, election administrator, or elected official. These elements reference Person:

• Candidate

• ElectionAdministration

• Office

Tag	Data Type	Required?	Repeats?	Description	Error Handling
ContactInformation	ContactInformation	Optional	Repeats	Refers to the associated ContactInformation.
DateOfBirth	xs:date	Optional	Single	Represents the individual’s date of birth.
ExternalIdentifiers	ExternalIdentifiers	Optional	Single	Identifiers for this person.
FirstName	xs:string	Optional	Single	Represents an individual’s first name.
FullName	InternationalizedText	Optional	Single	Specifies a person’s full name (NB: this information is InternationalizedText because it sometimes appears on ballots in multiple languages).
Gender	xs:string	Optional	Single	Specifies a person’s gender.
LastName	xs:string	Optional	Single	Represents an individual’s last name.
MiddleName	xs:string	Optional	Repeats	Represents any number of names between an individual’s first and last names (e.g. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien).
Nickname	xs:string	Optional	Single	Represents an individual’s nickname.
PartyId	xs:IDREF	Optional	Single	Refers to the associated Party. This information is intended to be used by feed consumers to help them disambiguate the person’s identity, but not to be presented as part of any ballot information. For that see Candidate PartyId.
Prefix	xs:string	Optional	Single	Specifies a prefix associated with a person (e.g. Dr.).
Profession	InternationalizedText	Optional	Single	Specifies a person’s profession (NB: this information is InternationalizedText because it sometimes appears on ballots in multiple languages).
Suffix	xs:string	Optional	Single	Specifies a suffix associated with a person (e.g. Jr.).
Title	InternationalizedText	Optional	Single	A title associated with a person (NB: this information is InternationalizedText because it sometimes appears on ballots in multiple languages).

<Person id="per50001">
   <ContactInformation label="ci60002">
     <Email>rwashburne@albemarle.org</Email>
     <Phone>4349724173</Phone>
   </ContactInformation>
   <FirstName>RICHARD</FirstName>
   <LastName>WASHBURNE</LastName>
   <MiddleName>J.</MiddleName>
   <Nickname>JAKE</Nickname>
   <Title>
     <Text language="en">General Registrar Physical</Text>
   </Title>
</Person>

ContactInformation

For defining contact information about objects such as persons, boards of authorities, organizations, etc. ContactInformation is always a sub-element of another object (e.g. ElectionAdministration, Office, Person, Source). ContactInformation has an optional attribute label, which allows the feed to refer back to the original label for the information (e.g. if the contact information came from a CSV, label may refer to a row ID).

Tag	Data Type	Required?	Repeats?	Description	Error Handling
AddressLine	xs:string	Optional	Repeats	The “location” portion of a mailing address. See usage note.
Directions	InternationalizedText	Optional	Single	Specifies further instructions for locating this entity.
Email	xs:string	Optional	Repeats	An email address for the contact.
Fax	xs:string	Optional	Repeats	A fax line for the contact.
Hours [deprecated]	InternationalizedText	Optional	Single	Contains the hours (in local time) that the location is open (NB: this element is deprecated in favor of the more structured :ref:`multi-xml-hours-open` element. It is strongly encouraged that data providers move toward contributing hours in this format).
HoursOpenId	xs:IDREF	Optional	Single	References an HoursOpen element, which lists the hours of operation for a location.
LatLng	LatLng	Optional	Single	Specifies the latitude and longitude of this entity.
Name	xs:string	Optional	Single	The name of the location or contact. See usage note.
Phone	xs:string	Optional	Repeats	A phone number for the contact.
Uri	xs:anyURI	Optional	Repeats	An informational URI for the contact or location.

Name and AddressLine Usage Note

The Name and AddressLine fields should be chosen so that a display or mailing address can be constructed programmatically by joining the Name and AddressLine fields together. For example, for the following address:

Department of Elections
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 48
San Francisco, CA 94102

The name could be “Department of Elections” and the first address line could be “1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 48.”

However, VIP does not yet support the representation of mailing addresses whose “name” portion spans more than one line, for example:

California Secretary of State
Elections Division
1500 11th Street
Sacramento, CA 95814

For addresses like the above, we recommend choosing a name like, “California Secretary of State, Elections Division” with “1500 11th Street” as the first address line. This would result in a programmatically constructed address like the following:

California Secretary of State, Elections Division
1500 11th Street
Sacramento, CA 95814

<ContactInformation label="ci10861a">
   <AddressLine>1600 Pennsylvania Ave</AddressLine>
   <AddressLine>Washington, DC 20006</AddressLine>
   <Email>president@whitehouse.gov</Email>
   <Phone>202-456-1111</Phone>
   <Phone annotation="TDD">202-456-6213</Phone>
   <Uri>http://www.whitehouse.gov</Uri>
</ContactInformation>