vote.direct provides online voting software and full-service election administration for HOAs, condos, co-ops, churches and member organizations, including mailed ballots, in-person elections and on-site staffing.
vote.direct will run your whole election for you — ballot build, roster, notices, reminders, quorum monitoring, close, tally, and a result certificate with the audit package — from $199 for a digital election of up to 100 voters.
Nobody in this category publishes a managed price: on the vendor pages we checked in August 2026, Simply Voting quotes managed elections through sales and AssociationVoting quotes everything past its election setup service, so a board that wants somebody else to run the vote sits through a call before it hears a number. $199 is vote.direct's published price for that work — a digital election of up to 100 voters — in public, before any call.
Choose the voting methods your members need, then choose how much of the work you want vote.direct to handle. A hybrid election can combine all three.
From $199 per election
We build and run the election, answer voter questions, close the vote and deliver the tally, certificate and audit package. Includes the platform fee for up to 100 voters; larger rosters are quoted.
Managed election scope$6.00 per packet, plus election fees
Printed ballots with postage both ways. Returns can go to your inspector, your management office or our neutral election address. Accepted paper and online ballots enter the same tally.
Paper ballot pricingFrom $1,000 for staffing, plus management
2 staff at your meeting to run the ballot station, open returns, count and announce results. Managed administration plus staffing starts at $1,199, before mailed packets or inspector service. Date, location and meeting length are quoted.
In-person election staffing and scopeTalk through the election and staffing with us: (512) 222-8191.
vote.direct will run your whole election for you — ballot build, roster, notices, reminders, quorum monitoring, close, tally, and a result certificate with the audit package — from $199 for a digital election of up to 100 voters.
| Service | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Setup & Launch | From $99 | We build the ballot, load the roster, write and send the notices, and hand you a live election. |
| Full Managed Election | From $199 | Everything in Setup & Launch, then we run it: reminders, quorum, voter support, close, tally, certificate. |
| Managed + Mailed Packets | From $199 plus $6.00 per packet | A full managed election where the members who need paper get a printed packet with a postage-paid return envelope, and their returned ballots land in the same tally. |
| Managed + Inspector of Elections | From $499 | A full managed election where vote.direct also serves as your inspector of elections — Colorado, Nevada, Florida, Texas, Arizona and Maryland only. |
| Above 100 voters | Quoted | Same scope, priced on your roster. The self-serve platform itself is quoted above 5,000 voters. |
Prices are what we publish, not an opening position. Scope and price are agreed in writing before any work starts, and we need 10 days before ballots open.
A managed election moves work off your board, not responsibility. Here is the whole split, line by line, so nobody discovers in week two that the thing they assumed was ours is theirs.
| Task | vote.direct | Your board |
|---|---|---|
| Ballot build | ||
| Roster load and dedupe | ||
| Notice drafting and send | ||
| Reminder cadence | ||
| Voter support inbox | ||
| Quorum monitoring | ||
| Close and tally | ||
| Result certificate and audit package | ||
| Paper packets (optional) | ||
| Inspector of elections (optional)† | ||
| Nominations and candidate statements | ||
| Legal review | ||
| Adopting election rules |
† Inspector of elections: vote.direct may be appointed in Colorado, Nevada, Florida, Texas, Arizona and Maryland only. You may appoint your own inspector anywhere, and in California you must.
A managed election does not make the vote legally binding. Your notice, your governing documents, your inspector where one is required and your counsel decide that. We do the work and hand you the record.
We build the ballot, load the roster, write and send the notices, and hand you a live election.
Starting price, platform flat-rate fee included, for up to 100 voters; larger rosters are quoted on top. You run the election from open onward.
Everything in Setup & Launch, then we run it: reminders, quorum, voter support, close, tally, certificate.
The starting price covers a digital election — email and SMS ballots, no mailed packets — of up to 100 voters, platform flat-rate fee included. Give us 10 days before ballots open. Larger rosters, mailed packets and an in-person count are quoted on top.
A full managed election where the members who need paper get a printed packet with a postage-paid return envelope, and their returned ballots land in the same tally.
$6.00 per packet, charged on the packets actually mailed. The $6.00 covers the trip both ways: the packet out, and a return envelope that already has the postage paid on it, so the member never buys a stamp. There is no separate postage line on your invoice. The return envelope is addressed wherever you designate: your inspector, your management office, or our neutral election address. Returns that come to us are entered by us; returns that go to you are entered by your board in the dashboard, ballot by ballot, with a photo of each on the record. A mailed ballot counts when it reaches the return address on the envelope by the close date in your notice — received by, not postmarked by, so nobody has to adjudicate a smudged postmark after the count has started. We work backwards from your close date at kickoff and give you the mail-by date to print on the packet. Paper and online ballots are counted together.
A full managed election where vote.direct also serves as your inspector of elections — Colorado, Nevada, Florida, Texas, Arizona and Maryland only.
Starting price for a digital election of up to 100 voters; larger rosters, mailed packets and an in-person count are quoted on top. Not available in California: Cal. Civ. Code §5110(b) bars a vendor under contract to the association from serving as inspector. We will help you find an independent one instead. In Texas the offer covers homeowners associations only, not condominiums. Everywhere else you appoint the inspector or neutral counter your documents call for, and we run the election underneath them. When the vote or the count happens in person, we are physically in the room: 2 of us, from $1,000 on top of the managed price, and it is required whenever vote.direct serves as your inspector for an in-person vote or count.
vote.direct can be appointed inspector of elections in 6 states — Colorado, Nevada, Florida, Texas, Arizona and Maryland — for $300 on top of a full managed election, $499 in total. The inspector confirms the roster before ballots go out, oversees the count, and signs the certification that goes into your minutes.
These are the states where we have checked the rule. Elsewhere we have not verified that a paid platform vendor may serve, so we do not offer it.
vote.direct never serves as inspector of elections in California, because California requires an inspector independent of the vendor. The association pays us for the platform, and Cal. Civ. Code §5110(b) disqualifies anyone under contract to the association for compensable services. We will help you find an independent inspector instead.
Who may serve in your state, who is disqualified, and what the job actually involves: inspector of elections by state. Inspectors in practice who want the platform work without the platform taking the appointment: the inspector partner program.
Boards do not compare a managed election against another SaaS tier. They compare it against the way they ran it last time. Both figures below are ones this site already publishes.
| How the vote gets run | Cost per election |
|---|---|
| Traditional 200-unit paper election | $2,000–$5,000 |
| California inspector of elections engagement | $500–$2,500 |
| vote.direct runs it — digital, up to 100 voters | $199 |
| vote.direct runs it and serves as inspector (Colorado, Nevada, Florida, Texas, Arizona and Maryland) | $499 |
Read that as an order of magnitude, not a like-for-like: the paper anchor is a 200-unit election, while $199 covers a digital election of up to 100 voters and a larger roster is quoted. The California inspector figure is on the list because it is a real line on a California board's budget, not because we can take that job — in California we cannot. Sources for both anchors: how much an HOA election costs, paper versus digital.
10 days is the notice we need, not your statutory notice period. If your governing documents demand longer, the schedule stretches to meet them.
Day 1 · Kickoff
You send the roster, the call for the vote, the ballot content and the rules that bind it — quorum threshold, voting window, who counts as eligible. One email is usually enough.
Days 2–4 · We build
We build the ballot from your notice, bylaws and candidate list, then load the roster, dedupe it and flag the addresses that are going to bounce before they bounce.
Day 5 · You proof it
You see the ballot exactly as a member will see it, plus the roster count and the dates. Nothing goes out until the board says this is the election it meant to call.
Days 6–7 · Notices
We draft the notices your governing documents and state law require and schedule them to your statutory date — not to ours. If your notice period is longer than this timeline, we start earlier.
Days 8–9 · The board votes a test ballot
We send the board a test ballot — a hidden copy of the real election — so you receive what a member receives and cast a ballot on it before a single member does. Test ballots never touch the real roster, results or tally.
Day 10 · Ballots open
From here the reminder cadence, the voter support inbox and daily quorum monitoring are ours. You get told early if quorum is not tracking, while there is still time to do something about it.
Closing day · Close, tally, certificate
On a digital election the tally is final the moment it closes. Where packets are mailed it is final on the close date, once the returns that arrived by then have been entered. A mailed ballot counts when it reaches the return address on the envelope by the close date in your notice — received by, not postmarked by, so nobody has to adjudicate a smudged postmark after the count has started. We work backwards from your close date at kickoff and give you the mail-by date to print on the packet. Either way the result certificate and the audit package come with it — the hash-linked record of what happened inside the platform, ready for your minutes.
Mailed packets need more than 10 days. Printing and delivery set that date, and we name it at kickoff rather than discovering it later.
Paper ballots that come back are counted in the same tally as the online ones, not in a separate pile.
During the voting window the support inbox is ours. Members write to us, not to your manager.
Plenty of boards do not need us to run anything. The same platform is self-serve from $4.99 an election, and we would rather tell you that here than have you find it on the pricing page and wonder what else we left out.
| Voters | Price per election |
|---|---|
| up to 25 voters | Free |
| 26–50 voters | $4.99 |
| 51–100 voters | $9.99 |
| 101–200 voters | $19.99 |
| 201–400 voters | $24.99 |
| 401–1,000 voters | $69.99 |
| 1,001–2,000 voters | $149.99 |
| 2,001–5,000 voters | $249.99 |
| Above 5,000 | Talk to us |
Email and SMS verification are included. Government ID verification is $3.00 per checked voter. A mailed access letter on a self-serve election is $3.00 — that is one letter going out, which is not the same thing as the $6.00 managed packet above, where the price also covers the return envelope and the handling when the ballot comes back.
Yes. vote.direct provides 2 staff at your meeting to run the ballot station, receive and open returns, count ballots in front of members, and announce the result. On-site staffing starts at $1,000 in addition to the managed election fee. Availability and the final quote depend on the date, location and meeting length. The managed service covers ballot setup, roster preparation, notices, reminders, voter support, quorum monitoring, the tally, result certificate and audit package.
A managed digital election starts at $199 for up to 100 voters, including the platform fee. Adding 2 on-site staff starts at $1,000, so the combined starting price is $1,199. Mailed ballot packets are $6.00 each, postage both ways. Larger rosters, meeting length, location and any inspector service affect the written quote. On-site staffing is not included in the $199 digital price.
Either — vote.direct sells both, and a full managed election starts at $199. Managed, we build the ballot, load and dedupe the roster, draft and send the notices, run the reminders, answer the voters, watch quorum daily, close, tally, and issue the result certificate with its audit package. Self-serve, the board does that work itself on the same platform from $4.99 for an election of up to 50 voters. There is a middle option too: $99 for setup and launch, where we hand you a live election and you run it from open.
A managed HOA election from vote.direct starts at $199 for a digital election of up to 100 voters, with the platform fee included; larger rosters, mailed packets and an in-person count are quoted on top. Setup and launch only is $99. Mailed ballot packets are $6.00 each on what is actually mailed — the round trip, so there is no separate postage line. Adding vote.direct as inspector of elections is $300 more, $499 in total, and only in Colorado, Nevada, Florida, Texas, Arizona and Maryland. Above 100 voters the same scope is quoted on your roster.
vote.direct needs 10 days from the day you send us the roster, the ballot content and the rules to the day ballots open — more if packets are being mailed, because printing and delivery are the long pole. The voting window itself is set by your governing documents and your state law, not by us, and if your notice period is longer than our lead time the schedule stretches to meet it. On a digital election the tally is final the moment it closes; where packets are mailed it is final on the close date, once the returns that arrived by then have been entered. A mailed ballot counts when it reaches the return address on the envelope by the close date in your notice — received by, not postmarked by, so nobody has to adjudicate a smudged postmark after the count has started. We work backwards from your close date at kickoff and give you the mail-by date to print on the packet. The result certificate and audit package come with the tally either way.
vote.direct can serve as inspector of elections in 6 states — Colorado, Nevada, Florida, Texas, Arizona and Maryland — for $300 on top of a managed election, $499 in total. Never in California: Cal. Civ. Code §5110(b) bars anyone under contract to the association for compensable services from serving, and the association pays us for the platform, so we are disqualified by the same rule that protects you. In California we will help you find an independent inspector instead. Outside those five states we have not verified that a paid platform vendor may serve, so we do not offer it there either.
No — vote.direct sells 4 services and counting-only is not one of them. A count is only as sound as the roster and the ballot that produced it, so we will not take a stack of ballots that somebody else collected under rules we never saw. The closest thing we offer is the inspector engagement, where vote.direct oversees the count on an election run on the platform, or $99 setup and launch, where we build it and you run it from open.
vote.direct needs 4 things to build your election: the roster of eligible voters with their contact details, the call for the vote or notice you are working from, the ballot content — candidates, measures, the exact wording — and the rules that bind it, meaning the quorum threshold, the voting window and who counts as eligible. Send whatever form you already have them in; a spreadsheet and a PDF is normal. What we do not need is a clean roster, because deduping it and flagging the addresses that will bounce is part of the $199.
Yes — on a full managed election from $199 the voter support inbox is vote.direct's, not your manager's. Members who cannot find the email, changed their address, or want to know whether their ballot was received write to us and we answer them. We do not advise members on how to vote or on the merits of anything on the ballot, and we tell the board when a pattern is worth knowing about — a whole building whose notices bounced, for instance.
Either — vote.direct will contract with whichever entity signs and pays, and the $199 price is the same both ways. Management companies hand us a client's election rather than staffing it; associations engage us directly. Scope and price are agreed in writing before any work starts. The board is who we take direction from either way, and 3 things stay with the association whoever signs: nominations and candidate statements, legal review, adopting election rules.
The scope and the price are the same in every one of these. What changes is the statute, the notice, and what your members expect to receive.
Board seats, budgets, CC&R amendments and special assessments, run end to end.
From $199Shareholder and member votes for housing co-ops, including New York City boards.
From $199Board elections, bylaw amendments and member votes, with the record your auditor asks for.
From $199Annual meeting elections and bylaw amendments for member-owned institutions.
From $199Officer elections and contract ratifications, with the count scheduled so candidate observers can attend.
From $199Trustee elections and parent-body votes on a schedule that fits the academic year.
From $199Not on the list? $99 setup-and-launch and $199 full managed are the same two services whatever the organization is called.
Talk to a person
Call or text us and a real person picks up. Tell us what you are voting on and we will explain the setup and exact published price, even if you are not ready yet. At 1,000 voters, our regular price is at least 95% below two-way First-Class postage alone.
