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How to Build a Secure Voter Registration Form in WordPress

Oct 19, 2021RegistrationMagic , No Comments

Learn the art of crafting a secure voter registration form in WordPress using the RegistrationMagic plugin. In the extensive realm of elections, the voter registration process is a pivotal step. This article guides you through building a smart, secure form that facilitates the verification of voters’ detailed identification data, ensuring a smooth flow in the election process. Explore the foundations before delving into the intricate details of creating a reliable online voter registration form.

 

What is a voter registration form?

A voter registration form is a simple document that helps people enroll to vote in elections. It collects essential information, like your name, address, and identification details. This form is crucial because it ensures that voters are eligible and have valid credentials during elections. In countries around the world, this process is shifting from paper to online forms for ease and efficiency. The online voter registration form not only registers voters but also provides options for electronic voting, making the entire voting process more accessible and convenient.

 

How to create a voter registration form for your WordPress website?

Before going ahead make sure to ‘Install’ and ‘Activate’ RegistrationMagic plugin on your website using this link.

RegistrationMagic is a versatile tool that lets you easily make various forms for your website, such as event registrations or admission forms. It provides the freedom to customize and change the fields as many times as you need. This plugin’s wonders go beyond just online voter registration forms, making it a powerful and flexible solution for creating and managing a variety of forms tailored to your specific needs.

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Guide for creating a voter registration form using RegistrationMagic

Step 1: Adding a new form using RegistrationMagic.

  • Firstly, click on the RegistrationMagic plugin and click on “All Forms“.
  • Next, click on “New Form” to create a new voter registration form.

Step 2: Adding a new name for the form.

  • In the window that says “Create New Form“, add a title for your form.
  • Since we’re creating a voter registration form, that’s what we’ll name it. For reference, we’ll take the example of a voter registration system organized by AZX city. For instance, AZX City is located in the USA.
  • We’re fashioning a very basic form here with no videos or images attached. This doesn’t mean you can’t do that. We’ll tell you how to do that in the coming steps.

voter registration form

  • After that, from the ‘All forms page’, click on your new form’s ‘Fields’ section to proceed to add fields

voter registration form fields

You’ll land on this page. This is the page from where you need to add all fields. This page is called the ‘Fields Manager’ page.

Steps for adding form fields

  • From the above image, you can refer to the ‘Fields Manager’ page for adding all form fields.
  • All the fields are to be added to the form from the ‘All fields’ section. You’ll find every single field you’ll require here.

  • For instance, text, radio buttons, checkboxes, video links, images, etc. all lie under this category.
  • Just to gander at the good, here’s a glimpse of the vast range of categories under the ‘Fields’ section that you can use. We’re creating a basic voter registration form here. However, we won’t make use of all these fields.

  • Therefore, to understand all functionalities better, you can try adding fields and then deleting them as per your wish. It’s not permanent ink!

Step3: Adding fields to the form

Since the form we have in mind is a very basic and open one, we won’t make it extra refined. Therefore, we’ll add only a single sheet to the form. If need be, you can always create multipage forms easily through RegistrationMagic.

 Let’s start adding fields to our form:

Just go to the ‘All Fields’ section and start clicking on the fields you’d like to add to your form. We’ll first add all basic fields and label them before moving on to the others.

Once a field is labeled, scroll down and click on the ‘Add to form’ option to add it to the form.

Basic Fields

a basic voter registration form

As you see from the image above, we’ve added all basic fields for the participant. We’ve also labeled them clearly. Next to each field label, you can see the field category used to create it. Mentioned below are the field category details:

  1. The email field is a default field in all RegistrationMagic forms. We can’t remove it from any form and is a mandatory field.
  2. The first and last name fields are two different fields added to the form for the obvious reason of getting the full name of the participant.
  3. We add the birth date field to the form to get the D.O.B. of the participant. This field can be filled in the DD/MM/YYYY format.
  4. We use the mobile number category to get the contact number of the person. You can customize this according to your reach specifications. This means you can add this field for international or local purposes.
  5. The image upload field has been used to get the image of the participant. The image can be uploaded in JPEG, PNG, or other formats.
  6. In addition, we use the address field to get the location and residence details of the person.

Advanced Fields

a basic voter registration form

The fields used for advanced categories are:

  1. The radio button field asks a short question. This aims at asking the person whether or not they are a US citizen. This field is usually used to ask gender, yes/no questions, etc. We have also used this field to ask the voters if or not they’ve voted before.
  2. We use the checkbox field to find out if or not the person wants to show affiliation to a certain political party. Alternatively, radio buttons can also be used here. Although, one should keep in mind that checkboxes allow you to select multiple options while the radio button doesn’t.
  3. The text field asks the person a brief text question about the name of the political party they are affiliated if any.
  4. The T&C checkbox field helps us add the terms and conditions that the participant agrees with. Here we use it to mention all the declaration points for the person to read from and then click the checkbox as an agreement.
  5. One can use the file upload option to take any kind of file-based submission. This may include Excel files, PDFs, JPEG files, etc. The difference between file and image upload options is that the latter can only upload image-based files.
  6. The ESign field allows the person to upload their digital signature to the form directly.

With that, we’ve added all the necessary fields to our form. You can mark which fields are compulsory and which aren’t from the field settings themselves.

Additionally, you can also change the visuals and aesthetics of your form as much as you want through RegistrationMagic.

  Step4: Publishing the form

Copy the shortcode to a new page

Go back to the ‘All forms’ section. Copy the shortcode of the form

Now go to the ‘Pages’ section of the website backend. Click on ‘New page’

Add the actual title of your form in the ‘Title’ section and paste the shortcode in the ‘Main body’ of the page and click on ‘Publish’

With that, the entire form publishing process is complete. However, if you wish to add this to the main menu of your website, you can go to the ‘Appearance’ option on the website backend options and add this form to the menu and save it.

 

Frontend view of a basic voter registration form sample

This is how your form will appear to the participants on your website front end.

voter registration form sample
voter registration form sample

In conclusion, crafting a secure voter registration form in WordPress becomes effortless with RegistrationMagic. This plugin empowers you to create and manage forms with ease, ensuring a smooth and reliable voter registration process. With customizable fields and a user-friendly interface, it simplifies the complex task of collecting and verifying voter details. Elevate the integrity of electoral processes by harnessing the secure features of RegistrationMagic, making online voter registration a seamless and trustworthy experience for both administrators and voters.

 

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