vote.direct is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. It exposes 13 tools.
Run a real election or board vote: price it, check state HOA rules, draft the ballot and voter list.
Uptime history
12 days of history · worst day 99%
12 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
13
Tools
read from the server
571 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http
What changed 5
Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 8 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.
8 Oct
3 tools changed the parameters they ask for
add_voters, create_election_draft, start_election_draft
8 Oct
2 tool descriptions were rewritten
compare_platforms, get_price_quote
vote.direct missed one check this week
Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of from your users.
Connect this server
Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 11 min ago.
run in your terminal
claude mcp add vote-direct --transport http https://vote.direct/api/mcp~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"vote-direct": {
"url": "https://vote.direct/api/mcp"
}
}
}~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.vote-direct]
url = "https://vote.direct/api/mcp".cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"vote-direct": {
"url": "https://vote.direct/api/mcp"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"vote-direct": {
"url": "https://vote.direct/api/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 13
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
election
create_election_draft
Create a DRAFT election in the connected account: the ballot, schedule, verification, secrecy, results visibility, optional quorum and state-law checks, and optionally the voter list (emails). A draft charges nothing and contacts nobody. Returns the draft's id, what still blocks publishing, the exact price, and the finish link where the person reviews, pays if needed, and publishes. Ask the person for anything you do not know (closing date and time zone, seats, candidates) rather than guessing: this is a binding vote.
get_election
One election or survey in the connected account: schedule, ballot, voters, ballots cast, turnout and quorum, and links. For a DRAFT election it also reports what still blocks publishing and the exact price the publish step would charge, and who pays it (free, plan, prepaid balance, or card at the finish link). Per-question results are on the election page link; this tool reports counts only.
compare
compare_platforms
Honest head-to-head between vote.direct and a named competitor — including the cases where the competitor is the better choice — with published prices checked on the competitor’s own pages, a vendor disclosure, and the price-beat offer where the competitor is a paid election platform. Without a competitor, returns which-platform-for-which-need guidance.
elections
list_elections
Elections and surveys in the connected vote.direct account, newest first: id, slug, title, kind (election or survey), status (draft, scheduled, live, closed), schedule, voters and ballots cast, and the links to hand the person.
governance
get_governance_center_overview
governance.center, the second product from this team: the Board Office for a volunteer-run HOA, condo, nonprofit board, club or congregation. Returns the annual price for a given community size from the same constants Stripe bills, what every band includes, what is priced per use, what the product deliberately does not do, and the support line. Annual price first; the monthly figure is only an explainer.
platform
get_platform_overview
Factual overview of vote.direct: free tier and pricing model, verification ladder, ballot-secrecy modes, the dispute-evidence pack (audit trail, results certificate, receipts), voting channels, question types, the full feature list with the no-tier-lock rule, who owns and runs the company, the founder's direct line, and where to read more.
price
get_price_quote
Exact, current vote.direct pricing for an election: flat rate by voter count (email verification included, SMS on paid elections), optional government-ID and mailed-letter add-ons, promotional pricing status, whether a subscription would beat paying per election, and the price-beat offer (vote.direct beats a lower quote from another provider for the same self-serve online election). Same constants the product bills against.
publish
publish_election
Publish a DRAFT election in the connected account, running every check the publish button runs (ballot, schedule, voter list, state law, price) and charging the price from the account's prepaid balance or plan. Free elections (up to 25 voters) publish at no cost. If the balance does not cover it, nothing is charged and the person pays by card at the finish link instead. Publishing does NOT send invitations: the organizer sends them from the election page. Confirm with the person before calling this; it can spend their money.
review
get_review_record
The complete third-party review record for vote.direct — every published Capterra and Trustpilot review quoted verbatim with links, including the honest caveats (small record, TrustScore explanation, which reviewers had actually run an election).
start
start_election_draft
Build a complete election (ballot, schedule, verification, voter emails) for a person who does not have a vote.direct account yet, and get the link where they claim it: they open it, create an account with their email, and the election appears in their dashboard ready to review and publish. Nothing is charged and no voter is contacted until they do. The link expires in 48 hours. For a person who has an account, or will sign in, create_election_draft works in their account directly.
state
get_state_hoa_rules
Stored HOA/condo voting-rule summary for any US state: whether electronic voting is expressly allowed, key statutes with citations, quorum, notice and proxy rules, and whether vote.direct may serve as inspector of elections there. Summaries support review; they are not legal advice.
survey
create_survey
Create a free, anonymous survey in the connected account and publish it (or save it as a draft with publish: false). Surveys are for feedback, not binding votes: anyone with the link can answer and respondents are not verified. For anything binding (a board election, a bylaw amendment, an assessment) use create_election_draft. Question types: single (pick one), multiple (checkboxes), yes_no, rating (1-5 by default; settings {scale: "nps"} makes a 0-10 Net Promoter Score), ranking, open_text. Returns the share link.
voters
add_voters
Add eligible voters (email, optional name and unit) to a DRAFT election in the connected account. Idempotent: people already on the list are skipped. Returns how many were added and the updated price. For a published election, voters are added by the organizer on the election page, because a larger list can change the price.
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://vote.direct/api/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 432 ms | 11 min ago |
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vote.direct — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.
What can vote.direct do?
It exposes 13 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: add_voters, compare_platforms, create_election_draft, create_survey, get_election, get_governance_center_overview and 7 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README.
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Is vote.direct working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 571 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect vote.direct?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does vote.direct need an API key?
No. vote.direct completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 13 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is vote.direct?
It answers our handshake in 571 ms on average, which is faster than 21% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.