Your Rhode Island voter data is included
Rhode Island's official voter file is a public record that any person may obtain from the Rhode Island Department of State (Elections Division) — no candidate gate, no eligibility oath. $25 for the statewide voter list with vote history, by email or disk, and it comes with three free data updates within a year. A single city or town list is free by email.
Because the file is public, VoterFile obtains the current official file directly from the source at onboarding and loads your county or district into your private workspace — you don't request anything, and there is never a charge for the data itself.
Prefer to obtain your own copy instead? That works exactly the same way:
- Complete the Rhode Island Department of State's List of Registered Voters Order Form and email it to elections@sos.ri.gov, or mail it to the Elections Division in Providence.
- Choose the statewide list or your city, town, or district, and pick email or disk delivery.
- Pay the $25 statewide fee by check, money order, cash, or card; the statewide list includes three free updates within a year, and a single city or town list is free by email.
What the software does with your Rhode Island 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.
Turnout and vote-timing scoring calibrate to Rhode Island'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 Rhode Island
- Surname-and-geography ethnicity estimates for outreach planning
- Walk lists, mail lists, and canvassing packets
- Portable CSV export for field, mail, and phones
No paperwork. The data is part of onboarding.
In most states, VoterFile preps the voter-file request and the candidate signs as requester of record. Rhode Island is simpler: the file is public to anyone, so there is no request for you to sign at all.
Sign the services agreement and we obtain the official file and load your voters, typically within days. Refreshes come straight from the Rhode Island Department of State (Elections Division) on the state's own update cadence, at no charge, for the length of your race.
- Sign the services agreement — that's the whole checklist
- We obtain the official file and load your county or district
- Refreshed from the official source through your race, never a data charge
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 Rhode Island 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 we obtain the official Rhode Island file, load it into your workspace, and score it — no upload, no request.
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 work your race's voter file?
Request access for pricing, onboarding, and eligibility review. You bring your own state's official voter file, and we turn it into scored walk lists, mail lists, and turf for your race.
Questions
Do you sell or provide the Rhode Island voter file?
The data comes included with onboarding. Rhode Island's voter file is a public record available to any person, so VoterFile obtains the official file and loads your race's voters for you. We never sell voter data and never charge for it — the flat fee is for software and service only, and your data lives in a workspace isolated to your campaign.
How much does the Rhode Island voter file cost?
The data itself costs you nothing extra — it is included with the flat per-race software fee and never billed separately. If you would rather obtain your own copy directly: $25 for the statewide voter list with vote history, by email or disk, and it comes with three free data updates within a year. A single city or town list is free by email.
Can I use it for my Rhode Island local race?
Rhode Island's order form carries no oath, no requester-eligibility gate, and no use or transfer restriction, so the statewide list is a public record any person may buy. The file includes phone numbers where the voter provided one, year of birth, party, district assignments, and vote history, and it excludes driver's license number and Social Security number.
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.