# 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.

{% hint style="danger" %}
This subscription is unstable and only available if the validator was started with the 

`--rpc-pubsub-enable-vote-subscription` 

flag. The format of this subscription may change in the future.
{% endhint %}

#### Parameters required for this RPC call

* No parameters required.

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Websocket" %}

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "voteSubscribe"
}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Response" %}

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": 0,
  "id": 1
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

**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

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Example" %}

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "voteNotification",
  "params": {
    "result": {
      "hash": "8Rshv2oMkPu5E4opXTRyuyBeZBqQ4S477VG26wUTFxUM",
      "slots": [1, 2],
      "timestamp": null
    },
    "subscription": 0
  }
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}