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What vote.direct is

vote.direct is an online and mailed-ballot election platform for HOAs, condos, co-ops, churches, nonprofits, unions, clubs and schools. It counts online ballots and mailed paper ballots as one result, verifies voters by email, SMS or optional government ID, and produces a tamper-evident audit record that anyone can check in their browser at vote.direct/verify. It serves communities of up to 1,200+ homes, in the United States and internationally. Pricing is public and starts free for up to 25 voters.

Facts

Founded by: Oday Brahem
Operated by: Syft8, Inc., a US company. Founder-owned, with no outside investors.
Founder based in: Vancouver, British Columbia
Company address: 10900 Research Blvd, Austin, TX
Audit trail: SHA-256 hash-chained election events, checked by a verifier that runs in the reader’s own browser.
Managed elections and inspector of elections: Elections run end to end for the board. vote.direct serves as the independent inspector of elections in Colorado, Nevada, Florida, Texas (homeowners associations only, not condominiums), Arizona and Maryland, and declines the role in California, where Cal. Civ. Code §5110(b) bars a vendor under contract to the association.
State-rule setup checks: California, Florida, Texas, Colorado, Arizona and Nevada
Governance library: Free guides to HOA voting rules for all 50 states.

Boilerplate (50 words)

vote.direct is an online and mailed-ballot election platform for HOAs, condos, co-ops, churches, nonprofits, unions and clubs. It counts online and paper ballots as one result and produces a tamper-evident audit record anyone can verify in a browser. Operated by Syft8, Inc.; founder-owned; used by communities across the United States and internationally.

Founder

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Oday Brahem is the founder of vote.direct, an online voting platform for HOA, condo and cooperative elections. Based in Vancouver, he spent eight years in regulated enterprise software as a QA engineer, customer success lead and sales engineer at Collabware and VersaFile, and served as an intelligence operator in the Canadian Armed Forces reserves. He now builds the verification, state-by-state rule engine and audit record that association elections need to survive a challenge.

Full background, timeline and interview topics: vote.direct/about/oday-brahem

Assets

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Contact

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