High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! VOTA is the second self-titled album (first by this name) from the Christian rock band VOTA (formerly known as Casting Pearls). The album was released as a digital download on November 11, 2008 and released as a physical CD on February 10, 2009. The band is able to give $40.00 USD to Food for the Hungry through a matching grant with US AID for every album sold from their online store and merchandise table on tour. Since the digital release of the album in November, the band has helped raise over $200,000 for the Food for the Hungry project in Kenya (as of July 2009).