Every member gets a ballot,
wherever they are.
Pastor calls, budgets, elders, and building campaigns, voted by the whole congregation instead of whoever made it to the meeting. Verified against your membership directory, secret when it must be, and documented for your minutes.
- Votes up to 25 members are free
- Email and text ballots included, mailed ballots for members without either
- Sealed secret ballots for pastoral and personnel votes
Questions about your election? Call or text (512) 222-8191
A person answers. HOA, condo, co-op, and church boards work with the same specialist from setup to certification. No phone tree.
What a Sunday-only vote costs you
The business meeting decides. The problem is who never gets into the room.
Sunday-only voting excludes members
Elderly, homebound, traveling, and multi-campus members miss business meetings. Decisions are made by whoever shows up that day.
Hand counts leave no record
When a pastoral call or a budget decision is questioned later, a show of hands and a tally sheet cannot answer who was eligible, who voted, or how the count was reached.
Sensitive votes need real secrecy
Pastor calls, staff compensation, and personnel matters need ballot secrecy that a raised hand in a room can never provide.
What congregations vote on here
From pastoral calls to building campaigns
The record shows who voted. Never how anyone voted.
A pastoral call divides a congregation when members wonder who saw their ballot. You choose how strong the secrecy is before the vote opens, and the choice is printed on the election for everyone to see.
Anonymous
Leadership, published results, and every export show the tally without any voter's name attached to any ballot. The roster still records who participated, so quorum holds.
The right default for budgets, elders, and amendments.
Sealed ballot
The ballot is stored with no link to the member at all, and the box cannot be opened before the close. Nobody, including us, can ever connect a member to a ballot afterward.
Built for pastor calls, compensation, and personnel votes.
One tally, four ways to reach it
Every member gets whichever channel actually reaches them, and every ballot lands in the same count. Homebound members, members without email, and members across campuses are all in the same election.
Each member opens their own ballot link, verifies, and votes in about a minute, from any phone or computer.
The same ballot sent to their phone, for members who never open email.
A mailed letter carrying that member's own voting code. Anyone in the household can help them scan it and vote.
A printed ballot with a postage-paid return envelope. We receive the returns and count them in the same tally as everyone else.
Mail is charged only on the pieces actually mailed. The voting window spans days, not one Sunday morning.
The screens your board will use
Captures of the live product, not mockups.
Your board builds this.
Seven question types on one screen, none of them behind a plan.
Your homeowners see this.
A board ballot with candidate statements, on any phone or computer.
You watch quorum and the tally, live.
Ballots counted as they arrive, quorum tracked, seats called when voting closes.
Send yourself a real test ballot before anything goes out.
What customers say
Word for word, each linked to the original.
Awesome company to work with
Awesome company to work with, founder is very personable and is directly accessible. They are very flexible and if you have any custom requests they will accommodate you. For our election it was a good product, easy to use.
Secure, Transparent, and Easy-to-Implement HOA Voting Solution
I especially appreciated the platform’s focus on voter verification, auditability, ballot secrecy, and compliance while still keeping the process simple and affordable for the Association to implement. In our case, setup would have required only a few minutes of effort from management or the Board.
Incredibly useful for us
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I used vote.direct for a core value…
I used vote.direct for a core value award vote at work and it was good since we made sure each person can only vote once per vote.
Great platform - text support
Great platform. Easy to use and cheap prices. Support is a available by texting which is nice.
Great company to work with
Great company to work with. Looking forward using them with our 148 unit condo association.
How it works
From setup to minutes-ready results in four steps
Create the vote
Set up the ballot questions, the voting window, and how strong the secrecy should be.
Upload the directory
Your membership roster as a CSV. Only the members on it can vote, once each.
Members vote
By email link, by text, or by a mailed ballot for members without either. Days, not one Sunday.
Present the record
The result, the participation count, and the export for your minutes, ready at close.
One flat price per election
Priced by the voters you invite. Email verification on every election, SMS on paid tiers. Charged once, when you publish.
Build and preview free. Pay when you publish.
Or hand it to us
Would rather not run it?
For $99 we build it: ballot, roster, notices, and a live election handed to you at open. From $199 we run a digital election end to end: reminders, voter questions, close, tally, certificate, audit package. Both cover up to 100 voters, platform fee included. Larger managed rosters are quoted.
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.
In-person elections and on-site staffingVoting all year? Unlimited plans from $9 a month are on the pricing page.
Questions churches ask
The same answers your board or elders will ask you for.
After the election
The congregational vote is one Sunday. The business meetings, the minutes and the records are the rest of the year. governance.center is our board office for that work, from the same team, and the same person answers the phone.
See the board office for churchesResources
Related guides
Deep dives, compliance checklists, and best-practice playbooks for your organization.
Use Cases
Church Governance Made Simple: Verified Voting for Religious Organizations
From pastor elections to budget approvals, religious organizations need trusted governance. ID-verified voting brings transparency and accessibility to church decisions.
Education
Robert's Rules of Order Voting: All 6 Methods Explained
Voice votes, rising votes, roll call, ballot, show of hands, and general consent: when to use each, what vote thresholds apply, and the motion-to-vote process your board actually needs to follow.
Education
How to Run an Online Election: The Complete Guide
Everything you need to run a legitimate online election, from planning and voter rolls to verification, ballot design, and certifying results.
Talk to a person
Have an election coming up?
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.
Put the next vote in front of everyone
Elections up to 25 voters are free. Congregation-wide votes are a flat rate by size, for example $24.99 up to 400 voters, with verification and the record for your minutes included.