# Verification record — `us/eac/voter-registration-national-mail-form` v1.0.0 This file is the **source-review record** for this document version, per the [`manual-source-review-v1`](../../../../../practices/manual-source-review-v1.md) practice. ## Current claim - **`status`:** `draft` - **`verification.method`:** `manual-source-review-v1` - **`verification.lastVerifiedAt`:** `2026-07-04` The document was derived from and cross-checked against the official/primary sources below. The full field-by-field comparison the practice requires has been completed once against those sources (this record), but not yet by a second, independent reviewer — so `status` remains `draft`, not `verified`. ## Sources examined - **Document `(id, version)`:** `us/eac/voter-registration-national-mail-form` / `1.0.0` - **Spec version:** GovSchema `0.3.0` - **Authority:** U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), a federal independent agency created by the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), which publishes and maintains this form under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA). - **Primary sources:** - — landing page: purpose, format, who must accept it. - — the fillable form and instructions booklet itself (27 pages: cover, General Instructions, Application Instructions, the fillable Application form (pp. 4/6, duplicated per sheet), and per-State Instructions covering all 50 States, D.C., and the territories the booklet lists). - — confirmatory FAQ (not separately cited per-field; consistent with the booklet). - **Official form id:** none printed on the form itself; identified by its OMB Control No. 3265-0015 and referred to by the EAC as the "National Mail Voter Registration Form." - **Extraction method:** the PDF's own AcroForm field annotations were read programmatically with `pdfjs-dist` (`page.getAnnotations()`), giving the exact field labels (`alternativeText`) and checkbox/radio export values (e.g. `TXT-0055` / "Courtesy Titles" / `Mr`, `Mrs.`, `Miss`, `Ms.`) — the same technique used for prior encrypted/complex-AcroForm sources (see memory: pdfjs-dist for encrypted AcroForms). The General Instructions, Application Instructions, and five sample State Instructions pages (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Wisconsin, Wyoming) were read as plain text layer output, verbatim, not summarized secondhand. - **Retrieved / reviewed:** 2026-07-04. - **Reviewer:** GovSchema Engineering (Standards Engineer, initial authoring source-review). ## What was confirmed against the source | Source element | Field(s) | |---|---| | Top-of-form citizenship/age gating questions | `isUSCitizen`, `willBe18ByElectionDay` | | Box 1 — Name (title, last/first/middle, suffix) | `courtesyTitle`, `lastName`, `firstName`, `middleNames`, `nameSuffix` | | Box 2 — Home address | `homeAddressStreet`, `homeAddressAptOrLot`, `homeAddressCity`, `homeAddressState`, `homeAddressZip` | | Box 3 — Mailing address if different | `hasMailingAddressDifferentFromHome`, `mailingAddressStreet`, `mailingAddressCity`, `mailingAddressState`, `mailingAddressZip` | | Box 4 — Date of birth | `dateOfBirth` | | Box 5 — Telephone number (optional) | `telephoneNumber` | | Box 6 — ID number, and the State-varying DL/State-ID vs. last-4-SSN vs. "NONE" pattern (confirmed identical across all five sampled States: AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA) | `idNumberType`, `idNumber` | | Box 7 — Choice of party, and its State-varying applicability (required in none of the five sampled States; several explicitly "do not complete") | `partyChoice` | | Box 8 — Race or ethnic group, and its State-varying applicability (all five sampled States: "leave blank" except Alabama, which requests but does not require it) | `raceOrEthnicGroup` | | Box 9 — Oath, signature, and date | `oathAffirmed`, `signatureFullName`, `signatureDate` | | Box A — Previous name (name-change applicants) | `isNameChange`, `previousFullName` | | Box B — Previous registration address | `isFirstTimeRegisteringAtThisAddress`, `previousRegistrationAddressStreet/City/State/Zip` | | Box C — Rural/no-street-address map | `hasNoStreetAddress`, `ruralLocationDescription` | | Box D — Assistance for an applicant unable to sign | `signedByApplicant`, `assistantName`, `assistantAddress`, `assistantPhone` | | General Instructions — "First Time Voters Who Register by Mail" (HAVA ID requirement) | `identificationProofAttached` | | General Instructions — North Dakota has no registration; Wyoming does not permit mail registration; New Hampshire/Wisconsin accept only as a request for their own process | `homeAddressState` description; `applicant_name_and_address` step transitions (`state-not-supported` / `state-alternate-process-required`) | ## What remains out of scope - The per-State instructions for all 50 States, D.C., and the territories (24 pages of the source booklet) are not modeled field-by-field; only a 5-State sample (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California) plus the four named exceptions (North Dakota, Wyoming, New Hampshire, Wisconsin) were read verbatim to confirm the *pattern* item 6/7/8 follow. Per-State registration deadlines, felony-disqualification rules, and the exact Box 9 oath wording are State-specific and are not encoded as data, consistent with how `gb/dvla/international-driving-permit` leaves a country-dependent lookup table (150+ destination countries) as applicant-supplied choice rather than enumerated data. - No `mapping.json` — the source is a static, downloadable PDF with no live web form/screen to map selectors against. - This document does not model the separate Federal Post Card Application (for military/overseas citizens) — the booklet explicitly directs that population elsewhere ("Use the Federal Postcard Application available to you from military bases, American embassies, or consular offices"). ## Next review `nextReviewBy`: 2027-01-04, or sooner if the EAC revises the form (it is updated periodically; the sampled State-instruction pages carry individual "Updated" dates from 2006 through 2025) or a State's item 6/7/8 treatment changes.