vote.direct offers self-serve voting software and full-service election administration: online, by mail, or in person with on-site staff. Self-serve is free up to 25 voters, then $4.99 to $149.99 per election up to 2,000 voters, or from $9 a month. Setup starts at $99; full digital management at $199 for up to 100 voters. Add 2 on-site staff from $1,000, with mailed ballots and inspector services priced separately.
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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.
Four prices, one question
Read a column top to bottom and you know exactly what the price buys. Read a row and you see what changes as you move right. The last row never moves: it stays with the board at every price.
| Who does whatPrices are per election unless a row says otherwise | Self-serve You run it. We answer the phone. Free to $149.99 per election, or from $9 a month if you vote all year | Setup & Launch We build it. You run it. From $99 starting price per election for up to 100 voters, platform fee included. Larger rosters are quoted on top | Full managed election We run it. From $199 starting price per election for a digital election of up to 100 voters, platform fee included. Larger rosters, mailed packets and an in-person vote or count are quoted on top | Managed + inspector of elections We run it and sign the count. From $499 starting price per election: $199 managed plus $300 to serve as your inspector, for a digital election of up to 100 voters. Larger rosters, mailed packets and an in-person vote or count are quoted on top; an in-person vote or count is from $1,000 more, 2 of us in the room |
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| Build the ballot | YouIn the wizard, from a template or from scratch | vote.direct | vote.direct | vote.direct |
| Load and clean the roster | YouImport a spreadsheet; duplicates and bad addresses are flagged for you | vote.direct | vote.direct | vote.direct |
| Write and send the notices | YouYou write them, the platform sends and tracks delivery | vote.direct | vote.direct | vote.direct |
| Remind members who have not voted | AutomaticOn the schedule you set | AutomaticOn the schedule we set with you | vote.directWe run the cadence and adjust it | vote.directWe run the cadence and adjust it |
| Answer voter questions | You, with us on the phone | You, with us on the phone | vote.directThe support inbox is ours, not your manager’s | vote.directThe support inbox is ours, not your manager’s |
| Watch quorum | AutomaticLive on your dashboard | AutomaticLive on your dashboard | vote.directDaily, and you hear early if it is not tracking | vote.directDaily, and you hear early if it is not tracking |
| Close, tally, certificate and audit package | AutomaticAt the close time you set | AutomaticAt the close time in your notice | vote.directWe close it and hand you the record | vote.direct, as inspectorWe close it; the inspector signs the certification |
| Inspector of elections | YouBring your own, or ask us to help you find one | YouBring your own, or ask us to help you find one | YouOr add vote.direct for $300 in 5 states | vote.direct5 states only. In the room when the vote or the count is in person, from $1,000 more |
| Nominations, candidate statements, election rules, legal review | You | You | You | You |
| Voters covered | Free up to 25 voters, one flat rate up to 2,000, quoted above that | The starting price covers up to 100 voters, digital. Above that, or with mailed packets or an in-person count, we quote on your roster | The starting price covers up to 100 voters, digital. Above that, or with mailed packets or an in-person count, we quote on your roster | The starting price covers up to 100 voters, digital. Above that, or with mailed packets or an in-person count, we quote on your roster |
| Notice we need | Publish whenever the ballot is ready | 10 days before ballots open | 10 days before ballots open | 10 days before ballots open |
| Where | Any state | Any state | Any state | Colorado, Nevada, Florida, Texas (homeowners associations only, not condominiums) and Arizona. Never in California. |
Set up your election, Self-serveSee the flat rates, Self-serve Talk it over first: call or text (512) 222-8191. | Book the setup call, Setup & LaunchHow it works, day by day, Setup & Launch Talk it over first: call or text (512) 222-8191. | Hand it to us, Full managed electionHow it works, day by day, Full managed election Talk it over first: call or text (512) 222-8191. | Ask about your state, Managed + inspector of electionsHow it works, day by day, Managed + inspector of elections Talk it over first: call or text (512) 222-8191. |
You run it. We answer the phone.
Free to $149.99
per election, or from $9 a month if you vote all year
Voters covered: Free up to 25 voters, one flat rate up to 2,000, quoted above that
Notice we need: Publish whenever the ballot is ready
Where: Any state
Talk it over first: call or text (512) 222-8191.
We build it. You run it.
From $99
starting price per election for up to 100 voters, platform fee included. Larger rosters are quoted on top
Voters covered: The starting price covers up to 100 voters, digital. Above that, or with mailed packets or an in-person count, we quote on your roster
Notice we need: 10 days before ballots open
Where: Any state
Talk it over first: call or text (512) 222-8191.
We run it.
From $199
starting price per election for a digital election of up to 100 voters, platform fee included. Larger rosters, mailed packets and an in-person vote or count are quoted on top
Voters covered: The starting price covers up to 100 voters, digital. Above that, or with mailed packets or an in-person count, we quote on your roster
Notice we need: 10 days before ballots open
Where: Any state
Talk it over first: call or text (512) 222-8191.
We run it and sign the count.
From $499
starting price per election: $199 managed plus $300 to serve as your inspector, for a digital election of up to 100 voters. Larger rosters, mailed packets and an in-person vote or count are quoted on top; an in-person vote or count is from $1,000 more, 2 of us in the room
Voters covered: The starting price covers up to 100 voters, digital. Above that, or with mailed packets or an in-person count, we quote on your roster
Notice we need: 10 days before ballots open
Where: Colorado, Nevada, Florida, Texas (homeowners associations only, not condominiums) and Arizona. Never in California.
Talk it over first: call or text (512) 222-8191.
Not sure which column is yours? Call or text (512) 222-8191 and describe the vote. If self-serve is enough, we will say so.
Self-serve
Priced by the size of your roster, not by turnout. Building and previewing your election is free. You are charged once, when you publish, and elections up to 25 voters are never charged at all.
Every election includes:
Printed ballot packets, government ID checks and your own domain attach at the flat add-on prices below. Elections above 2,000 voters are quoted: talk to us.
No charge until you publish.
Not sure which rung is yours? call or text (512) 222-8191.
Costed for your kind of organization, with what the other platforms charge beside it: association voting software pricing, what a secure voting platform costs a nonprofit, or price your own roster in the election cost calculator.
Self-serve, all year
Board votes, budget approvals, annual meetings: a fixed price for unlimited elections. Every plan has the whole toolkit. Plans differ by how many voters they cover, the ID checks they include, and how much of us you get.
Every plan includes:
Boards and committees, up to 50 voters
billed $99 a yearsave $9
Cancel anytime. Keep access to the end of the period you paid for.
Talk it over first: call or text (512) 222-8191.
Associations, up to 150 voters
billed $199 a yearsave $29
Cancel anytime. Keep access to the end of the period you paid for.
Talk it over first: call or text (512) 222-8191.
Large HOAs, up to 500 voters
billed $399 a yearsave $69
Cancel anytime. Keep access to the end of the period you paid for.
Talk it over first: call or text (512) 222-8191.
Property managers and portfolios, up to 5,000 voters
billed $1,999 a yearsave $389
Cancel anytime. Keep access to the end of the period you paid for.
Talk it over first: call or text (512) 222-8191.
Managing 5,000+ voters, a nonprofit, or working with a tight budget? Tell us what you can afford and we will find a price that works. We do custom plans for portfolios, nonprofits, and small communities.
Flat-rate add-ons
Each one is something we do today, at a published price, with the line it does not cross written next to it.
$6.00 per packet
We print and mail a hand-marked ballot packet with a return envelope that already has the postage on it, so the member never buys a stamp. The envelope is addressed to any address you designate: your inspector, your management office, or our neutral election address. Returns that come to us we enter into the same tally as the online ballots; returns that go to you, your board enters. Want us to build the packets? Setup & Launch, from $99, includes it.
The line: Charged on the packets actually mailed. A ballot counts when it is received by the close date, not postmarked by it. Each mailing waits for our approval before it prints.
Talk it over first: call or text (512) 222-8191.
$3.00 per packet
The same printed packet, addressed back to you instead of to us. Your board opens the returns and enters them in the dashboard, ballot by ballot, with a photo of each one on the record.
The line: Charged on the packets actually mailed. You supply the return address and you do the entry.
Talk it over first: call or text (512) 222-8191.
$3.00 per checked voter
A document check by our identity-verification provider, with a selfie match when you turn it on, run only on the voters you choose. The images go to that provider, never to our servers.
The line: Adds identity evidence about the person completing the check. It does not prove membership, eligibility, or that the election procedure was followed.
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$3.00 per letter
One letter carrying a private code, so a member with no email address votes online from a slip of paper.
The line: Arranged in advance. It is not a returned paper ballot; if your documents require one, use the packets above.
Talk it over first: call or text (512) 222-8191.
$50.00 per election
Members click a link on your domain rather than ours, which is the cheapest answer there is to "is this email real?".
The line: One election. Announcements sent from your own domain all year come with the annual plans instead.
Talk it over first: call or text (512) 222-8191.
$300 on a managed election
We confirm the roster before ballots go out, oversee the count, and sign the certification that goes into your minutes.
The line: Colorado, Nevada, Florida, Texas (homeowners associations only, not condominiums) and Arizona. Never in California: Cal. Civ. Code §5110(b) bars anyone paid by the association for other services, and the association pays us for the platform. Everywhere else you appoint the inspector or neutral counter your documents call for, and we run the election underneath them. If the vote or the count is in person, add in-person support below.
Talk it over first: call or text (512) 222-8191.
From $1,000 on a managed election
2 vote.direct staff physically at your meeting: we run the in-person ballot station, receive and open the returns, conduct the count in front of your members, and announce the result. Two people, because a count needs a second pair of eyes.
The line: Required whenever vote.direct serves as your inspector and the vote or the count happens in person; an inspector who is not in the room is not the inspector. Priced from $1,000 for 2 people by meeting length and location, agreed in writing before the date.
Talk it over first: call or text (512) 222-8191.
On a managed election only. These are the states where we have checked the rule; the price is the From $499 column above, plus in-person support when the vote or the count is in person.
Never in California. Cal. Civ. Code §5110(b) bars anyone the association pays for other services from serving as inspector, and the association pays us for the platform. We help you find an independent inspector there and take no fee from them for it.
Everywhere else you appoint the inspector or neutral counter your documents call for, and we run the election underneath them.
Who may serve in your state: inspector of elections by state. California boards: independent inspectors who work on the platform.
Not sure which side of the map you are on? call or text (512) 222-8191.
Read this before you compare
The absence is the part of an offer a board’s attorney reads first, so here it is in full.
We are not a law firm. Where this site cites a statute it is our reading, offered to support your review, and your attorney confirms it before the board acts on it.
The certificate and audit package record what happened inside the platform. Whether the result binds is decided by your notice, your governing documents, member consent where the law asks for it, the inspector where one is required, and your counsel.
Cal. Civ. Code §5110(b) disqualifies anyone the association pays for other services, and the association pays us for the platform. We help you find an independent inspector instead, and we take no fee from them for it.
The Texas act that lets a non-candidate tabulate does not reach condominiums, and the condominium act names nobody, so we do not put ourselves forward on a silence. Appoint someone who is not on the board and not on the ballot; we run the election underneath them.
No "was" price, no countdown, no code. The number on this page is the number on the invoice.
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Hands-on, at every price
Self-serve does not mean on your own. What this company has instead of a support department is the founder, and the claims below are the kind you can check in one call.
Every price, the free tier included
(512) 222-8191 reaches Oday Brahem, the founder and the engineer who builds the product, by call or text, any day of the week. The same person from setup to certification.
Send up to 5 people a hidden copy of the real election. Invite, verify, vote and watch the live results with the board before a single member sees it.
When you ask us to step into a live election, we work through a time-boxed access grant with a written reason. It shows on the election as a banner, it expires on its own, and you can revoke it.
Community, Association and Enterprise plans
Your questions go to the front of the line during a live vote.
Enterprise plans
A setup session for the whole portfolio, so every community is loaded the same way once.
Managed elections
During the voting window members write to us, not to your manager, and we answer them.
Our third-party review record is 6 reviews across Capterra and Trustpilot, which is not a track record. That review is worth reading in full because of what the customer chose to lead with. They were not asked about support, and they wrote that someone at vote.direct worked over a weekend to prepare a proposal for their board and answered every question in non-technical language. It is the same claim this page makes about founder-led support, made by someone with no stake in repeating it. Read it in full on Capterra, criticism included.
Most platforms charge per voter, so costs climb with every name on your roster.
| Platform | 100-voter election | Pricing model |
|---|---|---|
| vote.direct | $9.99 flat | Flat rate per election; email verification in every tier, SMS in paid tiers |
| ElectionBuddy | $29 flat | Flat fee per election by voter band; no SMS or government-ID verification published |
| Simply Voting | Unpublished | Priced by on-site calculator and sales quote; free for 10 electors or fewer |
| Paper ballots | Printing, postage, and volunteer hours | Manual distribution and hand counting |
Competitor figures read from their published pricing pages, last verified 2026-08-26. Simply Voting publishes no per-election prices. See the full cost comparison.
Free up to 25 voters and one flat price from $4.99 above that, or hand the whole election to us from $199. Build your ballot, invite voters, and watch results live.
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