How to get your North Carolina voter file
You obtain your own North Carolina voter file directly from the North Carolina State Board of Elections, under your own entitlement. Free. NCSBE offers the full statewide file as a free public download.
You stay the requester of record and the owner of the file. VoterFile never buys or resells voter data. You bring your own file, and we are only the software that processes it for your race.
- Download the statewide file from the North Carolina State Board of Elections site.
- County board lists are available at the actual cost of preparation plus media.
- Political parties can also get one free list per year.
What the software does with your North Carolina file
Once you upload your file into a workspace isolated to your campaign, it is imported and normalized, de-duplicated, and geocoded to precincts and walkable geography.
Turnout and vote-timing scoring calibrate to North Carolina's own election history, not California's, so the propensity numbers reflect how your state actually votes. From there you build targeted walk lists, mail lists, and turf, then export clean CSVs for the tools your campaign already uses.
- Import, normalize, and de-duplicate your uploaded file
- Geocode addresses to precincts and walkable turf
- Turnout and vote-timing scoring calibrated to North Carolina
- Surname-and-geography ethnicity estimates for outreach planning
- Walk lists, mail lists, and canvassing packets
- Portable CSV export for field, mail, and phones
Don't want to deal with the paperwork? We can get your North Carolina file for you.
Requesting a voter file for the first time trips up a lot of candidates. VoterFile can handle the request end to end: we prepare the paperwork, tell you exactly what to sign, and get the file into your workspace ready to score. You stay the requester of record, because North Carolina requires the candidate's own name on the request. We just take the busywork off your plate.
Prefer to do it yourself? The steps above are all you need. Either way, join the list and we will walk you through it.
- We prepare the state or county request for your signature
- You sign as the requester of record, as the law requires
- We load and score the file in your private workspace
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 North Carolina city council or school board is too small for that model and ends up with a spreadsheet.
VoterFile is the opposite wedge: a flat one-time software fee per race, your own data, and no annual data contract. It is aimed squarely at the local challenger in a low-turnout race.
- Flat one-time per-race software fee, not a yearly data contract
- You bring your own file, so you are never paying for the data itself
- 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 you obtain your North Carolina file using the steps above, upload it, and we import and score it.
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.
Need California voter-file software for a real campaign?
Request beta access for eligibility review, pricing, and onboarding for qualified California campaigns that bring an authorized voter file.
Questions
Do you sell or provide the North Carolina voter file?
No. You obtain your own file directly from the North Carolina State Board of Elections under your own entitlement. We are the software that processes the file you bring, never a data seller.
How much does the North Carolina voter file cost?
Free. NCSBE offers the full statewide file as a free public download.
Can I use it for my North Carolina local race?
North Carolina places no post-delivery use or transfer restriction on the public file.
What does the software itself cost?
A flat one-time software fee per race, far below the multi-thousand-dollar statewide contracts from the national vendors. You bring your own data, so you are paying for the software and service only.