# Plain Ballot (remote · plainballot.com)

A U.S. voter's ballot by address, with an exact quote and source behind every candidate position.

- Trust score: 70/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `plainballot.com`: 70/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/n8peace-plain-ballot/plainballot.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/n8peace-plain-ballot/plainballot)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://plainballot.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 80/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 63/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 533 tokens (~177/item across 3 items; 3 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 3/100
  - Stability observed for 1 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 78/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 33% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 3 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 4 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### How do I install the Plain Ballot MCP server?

Plain Ballot is a hosted endpoint at https://plainballot.com/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http n8peace-plain-ballot 'https://plainballot.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "n8peace-plain-ballot": {
      "url": "https://plainballot.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "n8peace-plain-ballot": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://plainballot.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.n8peace-plain-ballot]
url = "https://plainballot.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "n8peace-plain-ballot": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://plainballot.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add n8peace-plain-ballot --url 'https://plainballot.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  n8peace-plain-ballot:
    url: "https://plainballot.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "n8peace-plain-ballot": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://plainballot.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add n8peace-plain-ballot -t streamable-http -u 'https://plainballot.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "n8peace-plain-ballot": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://plainballot.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-05 (score 70, +7)

- [security improvement] Authorization: unverified → partial
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-11-04 (score 63)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (3)

### `list_issues` (~54 tokens)

List the issues

The 18 issues Plain Ballot tracks. Each has two sides, each worded the way its own supporters would say it. Use the short side labels ("l" and "r") when giving priorities to score_fit.

### `get_ballot` (~60 tokens)

Get a ballot

Every researched race on the ballot for a U.S. street address, with each choice's position on the issues that office decides, the exact quote, and the source URL.

Input parameters:

- `address` (string, required): Full street address with city, state and ZIP

### `score_fit` (~80 tokens)

Score fit with the voter's priorities

How closely each choice on the voter's ballot fits the priorities the voter stated, from 0 to 100. Plain arithmetic, the same as plainballot.com: issues where a choice has no sourced position are left out, never guessed. Only use priorities the voter actually gave you.

Input parameters:

- `address` (string, required)
- `priorities` (array, required)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/n8peace-plain-ballot/plainballot#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 70
- 2026-11-04: 63

## Common questions

### What is the Plain Ballot MCP server?

Plain Ballot is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.n8peace/plain-ballot. A U.S. voter's ballot by address, with an exact quote and source behind every candidate position. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://plainballot.com/mcp).

### Is the Plain Ballot MCP server safe to use?

Plain Ballot scores 70 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Plain Ballot MCP server expose?

Plain Ballot exposes 3 tools: list_issues, get_ballot, score_fit. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 194 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Plain Ballot MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Plain Ballot without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Plain Ballot MCP server still maintained?

Plain Ballot is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://plainballot.com/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/n8peace/plainballot
- Website: https://plainballot.com/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/n8peace-plain-ballot/plainballot.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/n8peace-plain-ballot/plainballot.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/n8peace-plain-ballot/plainballot