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# voteSubscribe

> Subscribe to receive notification anytime a new vote is observed in gossip. These votes are pre-consensus therefore there is no guarantee these votes will enter the ledger.

Subscribe to receive notification anytime a new vote is observed in gossip. These votes are pre-consensus therefore there is no guarantee these votes will enter the ledger.

## On ThorNode

The upstream node does not enable vote subscriptions; the request returns `-32601 Method not found`.

## Parameters

<ParamField body="params" type="array">
  <Expandable title="properties" defaultOpen>
    <ParamField body="none" type="null">
      No parameters required.
    </ParamField>
  </Expandable>
</ParamField>

## Notification format

The notification will be an object with the following fields:

* `hash: <string>` - The vote hash
* `slots: <array>` - The slots covered by the vote, as an array of u64 integers
* `timestamp: <i64|null>` - The timestamp of the vote
* `signature: <string>` - The signature of the transaction that contained this vote
* `votePubkey: <string>` - The public key of the vote account, as base-58 encoded string

## Response

<ResponseField name="result" type="integer">
  Subscription id (needed to unsubscribe)
</ResponseField>

<RequestExample>
  ```json Request theme={null}
  {
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": 1,
    "method": "voteSubscribe",
    "params": []
  }
  ```
</RequestExample>

<ResponseExample>
  ```json Response theme={null}
  {
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "error": {
      "code": -32601,
      "message": "Method not found"
    },
    "id": 1
  }
  ```
</ResponseExample>