Your Maine voter data is included
Maine allows an eligible party, candidate, campaign, or campaign-related GOTV organization to authorize a vendor on letterhead to request its Party/Campaign Use Voter File. On July 14, 2026, the Division of Elections advised in writing that the described private, password-protected vendor processing scenario did not seem to violate 21-A M.R.S. § 196-A. Tiered by record count: $11 for up to 1,000 records and $2,200 for 900,001 or more, with up to 11 free updates during the next 12 months. Scope and the official fee are confirmed before VoterFile provides a written software-and-service quote; no file is ordered before approval.
With your written authorization in place, VoterFile files the request as your campaign's representative and loads your race's voters into your private workspace. You receive a written software-and-service quote before purchase, with any official-source acquisition cost disclosed and capped before approval.
Prefer to obtain your own copy instead? That works exactly the same way:
- Sign a short authorization on campaign letterhead naming VoterFile to request and process the Party/Campaign Use Voter File for your identified Maine campaign, party, or campaign-related GOTV purpose.
- VoterFile submits your authorization with Maine's CVR request form and selects your race's geography plus, if useful, participation history for up to two named elections.
- Maine provides the pipe-delimited file on digital storage media rather than by email; VoterFile securely ingests it into your isolated workspace and can request up to 11 updates during the next 12 months.
What the software does with your Maine file
Once your file is loaded into a workspace isolated to your campaign, it is imported and normalized, de-duplicated, and geocoded to precincts and walkable geography.
Official-file fields and customer-entered campaign activity support filters, walk lists, mail lists, turf, and exports. Where the accepted state and privacy lane enables modeled outputs, turnout and vote-timing models calibrate to Maine's own election history rather than California's, and any ethnicity-likelihood output is presented as an estimate rather than an official voter field.
- Import, normalize, and de-duplicate your uploaded file
- Geocode addresses to precincts and walkable turf
- Turnout and vote-timing models only where the Maine workspace policy enables them
- Surname-and-geography ethnicity estimates only where the workspace policy enables them
- Walk lists, mail lists, and canvassing packets
- Portable CSV export for field, mail, and phones
Written authorization. The data is part of onboarding.
Official-source forms and requester requirements vary. Maine uses a customer-authorized representative path, so your part is the written authorization naming VoterFile your campaign's representative for the voter list, in the form the state requires.
Sign the services agreement and the authorization, and we file the state request — naming your campaign on it — then load your voters as soon as the issuing office delivers the official file. Available refreshes come straight from the Maine Secretary of State, Division of Elections (or your municipal registrar) under the state's terms.
- Sign the services agreement plus the state's short written authorization
- We file the state request as your designated representative and load your race
- Any official-source cost is disclosed and capped in writing before approval
Built for the races the big vendors skip
The national voter-data vendors are priced and built for statewide and federal campaigns. A first-time candidate for Maine city council or school board is too small for that model and ends up with a spreadsheet.
VoterFile scopes the geography first, then provides a written software-and-service quote before purchase. Any official-source acquisition cost is disclosed and capped in that quote, and nothing is ordered until you approve it. It is aimed squarely at the local challenger in a low-turnout race.
- Written software-and-service quote before purchase
- Official-source acquisition cost disclosed and capped before approval
- Designed for city council, school board, and special-district races
How onboarding works
First you sign a short services agreement that keeps VoterFile as your data processor, with no sale, no pooling, and deletion on request. Then we file the Maine request under your written authorization and organize the approved official file in your workspace — no upload needed.
Nothing moves until the agreement is signed, and your file lives in a workspace no other customer can reach. When your race is over, or any time you ask, your file and the lists are deleted.
Ready to scope your campaign's voter-file workspace?
Request an access and scope review. We confirm the campaign, geography, authorization, official file cost, and import plan, then provide a written software-and-service quote before purchase. Any source cost is disclosed and capped in writing.
Questions
Do you sell or provide the Maine voter file?
The data comes included with onboarding. Maine permits a customer-authorized representative workflow, so with your short written authorization VoterFile obtains the official file and loads your race's voters for you. We do not sell voter data; your written quote covers the scoped software and service and discloses and caps any official-source acquisition cost before approval.
How much does the Maine voter file cost?
Tiered by record count: $11 for up to 1,000 records and $2,200 for 900,001 or more, with up to 11 free updates during the next 12 months. Scope and the official fee are confirmed before VoterFile provides a written software-and-service quote; no file is ordered before approval. VoterFile confirms geography, eligibility, and the official-source cost, then gives you a written software-and-service quote before purchase. Any acquisition cost is disclosed and capped in writing, and nothing is ordered until you approve it.
Can I use it for my Maine local race?
Maine limits every direct or indirect recipient to party, campaign-related get-out-the-vote, or campaign use and prohibits using voter information to discriminate based on physical or mental disability, race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, religion, ancestry, or national origin. VoterFile never sells, licenses, advertises with, enriches for unrelated use, publishes, or reuses the file across customers; it processes one authorized customer's data in a private workspace and charges only for the software service.
What does the software itself cost?
Data-included work is quote-first. We review the campaign, geography, authorization, official file cost, and import scope, then provide a written software-and-service quote before purchase. Any source acquisition cost is disclosed and capped in writing and requires approval before ordering.