Michigan Elections Zapier integrationAutomate Michigan Elections with Zapier.
Michigan Elections Zapier integration: 2 triggers, 0 actions and 1 search. Michigan Elections reports new upcoming elections and changes to a registration or ballot status, and it can check whether someone is registered to vote. Here is what each step does, costs and breaks.
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What the Michigan Elections Zapier integration does for you
The integration connects Michigan Elections, a source of voter registration status and ballot information for Michigan, to the other apps you use through Zapier. It can start a Zap when an upcoming election appears or when a registration or ballot status changes, and it can look up whether a person is registered.
An election on your calendar. New Election starts a Zap each time a new upcoming election is identified, so your calendar or team chat hears about it without anyone checking by hand.
A status change you do not miss. Election Status Updated watches your own registration or ballot status for an upcoming election and starts a Zap when it changes, which can turn into an email or a reminder.
A registration check in the middle of a Zap. Find Registration Status checks whether someone is registered to vote, from a legal first and last name, a birth date and a ZIP code that an earlier step provides.
What Zapier does not do here: Michigan Elections has no action, so a Zap cannot write or send anything into it; it only feeds the other apps. Both triggers poll, so nothing arrives before Zapier's next check. To weigh Zapier against other tools, open our Make vs Zapier comparison or see our Zapier review.
Zapier words, in plain English
Eight terms come back on this page. One line each.
- Zap
- Your automation on Zapier: one trigger, then one or more actions that run every time the trigger event happens.
- Trigger
- The event that starts the Zap, such as a new upcoming election. Once the Zap is on, Zapier waits for it.
- Action
- What the Zap does once started: the step that writes, sends or moves something. Here it always lives in another app.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills: one action your Zap completes successfully. The allowance on your plan counts those.
- Polling trigger
- A trigger Zapier checks on a timer, asking the app for new items and keeping only the ones it has not seen. Both here are.
- Instant trigger
- A trigger the app reports itself, calling Zapier the moment the event happens. Michigan Elections has none.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap go on only when what arrived meets the condition you set, and stops it otherwise.
- Search step
- A step that looks up something that already exists, such as a registration, so later steps can use what it found.
What a Michigan Elections Zap really costs
Both triggers are free: the trigger never costs a task, and neither do Zapier's checks for new items, however often they run. Only the action in the other app is billed, one task each time it succeeds.
- TriggersNever counted
- Each successful action1 task
- Free plan100 tasks a month, two-step Zaps
- Search stepMakes the Zap multi-step
Michigan Elections is not a premium app, so it works on the free plan: 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps, each limited to one trigger and one action. New Election followed by a message in your team chat fits. Add Find Registration Status, a filter or a second action and the Zap becomes multi-step, which needs a paid plan. A few apps and actions take more than one task when they complete. The grid below sets how often Zapier checks both triggers.
Connect Michigan Elections to Zapier in three steps
- 01
Open the Apps page
In your Zapier account, open the Apps page and click + Add connection. A connection is your Michigan Elections account linked once, then reused by every step of every Zap that uses it.
- 02
Pick Michigan Elections
Search for Michigan Elections in the dialog, pick it and click Add connection. You need an account on the app, plus read or write access on anything you do not own yourself and want the Zap to touch.
- 03
Sign in and grant access
Sign in to Michigan Elections in the tab that opens, then grant Zapier access to the account. Back in the editor, that connection is the one you pick on both triggers and on the search.
Your first Zap: put each upcoming election on the calendar
GoalEach new upcoming election starts the Zap, an event goes into your calendar, and your team chat gets a message about it.
- 01
Set the trigger
Create a new Zap, pick Michigan Elections as the app that starts it and New Election as the event, then choose your connection.
- 02
Test it on real data
Run the trigger test. Zapier brings back the three most recent items of the connected account, so you map the next steps on a real election. Read what came back before going further.
- 03
Add the calendar event
Add your calendar app with its event-creation action and map the election details the trigger returned. Check at the test which date fields come through.
- 04
Add the chat message
Add your team chat as a second action. Two actions make a multi-step Zap: it needs a paid plan, and each election costs two tasks.
- 05
Test, then publish
Test each action once and read what came back. Then click Publish to switch the Zap on. For guided practice, see our Zapier training.
The Michigan Elections triggers
2 events start a Zap when something happens in Michigan Elections. Zapier checks for them at the interval your plan allows.
Election Status Updated
Polling triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when your registration or ballot status changes for an upcoming election.”
Watches a registration or ballot status for an upcoming election, and starts the Zap when that status changes. It works on one person's details, the ones you type into the trigger, so the Zap follows that person's situation.
YYYY-MM-DD and a ZIP code.New Election
Polling triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a new upcoming election is identified.”
Starts a Zap each time Michigan Elections identifies a new upcoming election. Unlike the status trigger, it asks for no personal details, which makes it the simplest way to begin with this app.
The Michigan Elections search
1 search step looks for data that already exists in Michigan Elections, so a later step can use it.
A search looks up what already exists and hands it to the next steps. In the editor, searches sit at the bottom of the Action event list under SEARCH. Three settings decide what happens when the answer is not a single clean match.
Find Registration Status
SearchIn Zapier“Checks to see if someone is registered to vote.”
Checks whether someone is registered to vote in Michigan. It needs the person's legal first and last name as they would appear on a license, a birth date in YYYY-MM-DD form and a ZIP code.
The three settings every search exposes
- Successful if no search results are found?Left as is, a search that finds nothing stops the Zap there and the steps that depend on it are skipped. Switched on, the Zap carries on empty-handed.
- Create X if it doesn't exist yet?This box turns a search into a find-or-create. Find Registration Status does not offer that variant on Zapier, so you will not see it here.
- If multiple search results are found?Three ways out when several items match: keep the first one, which is the default, stop the Zap, or hand all of them on at once.
When a Michigan Elections Zap breaks
Zapier links no help article to Michigan Elections, so the cases below are Zapier's general limits. They apply to these triggers too.
These cases cover what a polling trigger does or does not see. When a run fails and the reason is not obvious, see our Zapier troubleshooting guide.
Elections listed earlier are skipped
A Zap reacts only to what happens after you switch it on. Elections or status changes from before never start it; catching up on them is a separate job.A Zap that sets itself off
A general precaution: a Zap that writes into the place its own trigger watches can start itself again and again and burn through your tasks. Keep the output elsewhere.A sudden batch is held back
After a bulk import or a migration, a trigger that returns a huge batch at once can be held back by Zapier's flood protection.The same item does not repeat
On a polling trigger, Zapier keeps track of what it has already seen, so the same item does not start the Zap twice.
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