Real people's-choice votes for "Best Restaurant" award ballots run by local papers, city magazines, and food-festival readers' polls — from $7.99/100 with free pre-order analysis. Award-poll ballots only, never Yelp or Google reviews or star ratings.
delivered votes stay counted on named "best of dining" ballot engines
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Every vote is a real human on a residential or mobile IP — indistinguishable from an organic voter. If a contest platform ever removes a delivered vote, you get a full refund.
No card, no signup. Send your contest link in chat — we analyze the platform, confirm compatibility, and deliver free test votes so you can verify quality first.
"I personally review every test request and reply within a couple of hours." — Victor Williams, Founder
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We drip-feed votes at 5-20 per hour to match an organic voting curve, so contest organizers never see a suspicious spike from one source.
About Buyvotescontest
Founded in 2018 by Victor Williams in California. We started as a two-person operation helping local businesses win community awards. Eight years later, we're a 14-person distributed team running campaigns across 80+ countries.
We don't take political work. We don't take government contracts. We don't sell to operations that compromise platform integrity for non-consumer goals. Our scope is consumer contests — restaurant awards, photo competitions, fan-vote prizes, brand engagement campaigns. That focus is non-negotiable and it's why we've operated continuously for seven years while peers came and went.
Free pre-order ballot-mechanic analysis — paste your "Best Restaurant" ballot URL, we map the voting rules within 60 minutes
Residential and mobile IPs per vote — never datacenter, never VPN
Award-ballot scope only — we add votes to a public people's-choice ballot, never to Yelp, Google, or TripAdvisor reviews or star ratings
Daily-anchor pacing for readers' polls that cap one vote per voter per day
Local-IP targeting to match the dining-out readership of the paper or city magazine
Refund if the ballot mechanic turns out to be undeliverable after analysis
Supports newspaper "Readers' Choice Dining", city-magazine "Best Of Food", and food-festival readers'-poll engines
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About Best restaurant votes
"Best Restaurant" votes are people's-choice award ballots — the audience-choice award rounds that local newspapers run as "Readers' Choice Dining", that city magazines run as their annual "Best Of Food" issue, and that food festivals run as readers' polls. On these ballots each submission is a vote: a diner picks your restaurant from a category list and submits, and the venue with the most ballots wins the "Best Restaurant" badge that hangs in the window and headlines the menu for the next year. This is a popularity vote, not a Yelp or Google star rating. We add votes to that public ballot and nothing else. Paste the ballot URL, we analyse the voting mechanic for free, then deliver real votes from residential and mobile IPs starting at $7.99 per 100. If the ballot mechanic turns out to be undeliverable, we refund — no analysis fee, no deduction. For the broader catch-all see our contest votes service.
Why Best restaurant votes matter for your contest
A "Best Restaurant" badge is one of the most valuable pieces of marketing a small venue can earn. City- magazine "Best Of Food" winners reprint the badge on the menu, the window, the website, and every delivery-app banner, and diners treat the local readers' choice winner as a default booking. The annual ballot decides that badge, and the categories are usually tight — "Best Italian", "Best Brunch", "Best New Restaurant" — so a few hundred votes routinely separate the winner from the runner-up. The market for these ballots is fragmented: every metro newspaper group, every city magazine, every regional food festival runs its own engine — sometimes a SaaS "best of" platform like SecondStreet or Woobox, sometimes a custom WordPress build, sometimes a Google Form in an article.
Our service treats the ballot mechanic — not the platform name — as the unit of work. One vote per diner per day? We pace deliveries across the ballot window. Email signup required to vote? We provision verified inboxes via our email votes infrastructure. Votes restricted to the metro area? We hold the IP pool inside the publication's circulation so the ballot's local-area signal stays consistent. The line we never cross: this service adds votes to a public award ballot. It does not, and will not, touch your Yelp reviews, your Google Business Profile rating, your TripAdvisor score, or any star-rating or review-count system. Those are review-platform integrity systems with their own legal regimes, and we descope them entirely — the same way our Amazon and IMDb pages refuse review and rating manipulation.
How we deliver Best restaurant votes
Delivery for a "Best Restaurant" ballot runs in five stages, built around the ballot deadline that makes award votes different from open-ended engagement polls. Total elapsed time runs 1 to 72 hours depending on the ballot mechanic and your chosen pacing.
Stage one is URL submission and goal definition — you send the ballot URL, the close date, your current vote count if the ballot shows it, and the leader's count if visible. No payment yet. Stage two is ballot fingerprinting: we open the URL, identify the voting engine, document the per-IP and per-day caps, note any CAPTCHA, account-creation, or email-verification requirement, and confirm whether one diner may vote daily. That takes 30–60 minutes. Stage three is the capability quote — we tell you whether we can deliver, the per-vote price (most "best of dining" ballots price at $0.06–$0.08; email-verified ballots carry a surcharge), the delivery window, and which of three pacing modes fits your deadline: even-pace, last-48h push, or daily-anchor. Stage four starts after you pay: votes dispatch in paced waves matching the dining-out readership of the paper or magazine. Stage five is real- time monitoring so we catch any mid-ballot rule change and adapt before votes get invalidated. Most ballots under 1,000 votes finish in 6–24 hours on even-pace or last-48h push; a daily-anchor ballot stretches across the days the organiser allows, so a 7-day ballot on daily-anchor takes 7 days. We give the exact ETA in stage three.
How we avoid platform detection
"Best Restaurant" ballots are policed differently from open engagement polls because a published dining winner carries the publication's brand and sells the "Best Of" issue. A city magazine that prints a "Best Restaurants 2026" feature has a reputational stake in the result looking credible, so the visible counter gets scrutinised: spikes during dead hours, sudden jumps of hundreds of votes in minutes, and geographic profiles that do not match the publication's circulation all draw attention. Our pacing modes are designed to produce a counter curve that looks like the magazine's own readers voting — restaurant ballots cluster heavily around lunchtime and the 6–9pm dinner window, with weekend peaks, so our delivery mirrors that by default.
Across the named "best of dining" ballot engines we support (SecondStreet, Woobox, Wishpond, Votigo, custom newspaper voting plugins, food-festival readers'-poll SaaS), the large majority of delivered votes stay counted. On the niche custom-coded ballots we accept after analysis the counted share is a little lower but still strong, because the analysis step screens out mechanics we cannot reliably win — mandatory phone verification, in-venue QR-ballot tie-ins, or judge-scored rounds disguised as public votes. If your ballot has any of those red flags we say so in the free analysis and decline rather than take your money. We also restrict the IP pool to the publication's circulation area so the geographic profile of the votes stays inside the expected dining-out readership.
Legal scope and terms
Buying votes on a "Best Restaurant" people's-choice ballot is legal in the jurisdictions we serve, because these are commercial promotional ballots run by private publishers and festivals — not regulated elections. Newspaper readers' choice dining contests, city-magazine "Best Of Food" issues, and food- festival readers' polls are marketing vehicles whose audience-vote rounds exist to drive reader engagement and ad sales.
We explicitly do not deliver votes for: political elections, primary elections, government referendums, shareholder proxies, union elections, professional-body licensing votes, board elections, or any vote of legal or fiduciary consequence. We screen every order for use-case before delivery; off-scope orders are declined and refunded.
Separately and importantly, this service is scoped to public award ballots only. It does not touch online reviews or star ratings of any kind. Manipulating Yelp, Google, or TripAdvisor reviews can breach those platforms' terms and, in the United States, the FTC's rule on fake reviews and testimonials (16 CFR Part 465, in force since October 2024) — so we descope review and rating work entirely and decline any request to post, alter, or vote on reviews.
Getting started in two minutes
Getting started takes about five minutes. Paste the ballot URL into the order form or send it via live chat. Tell us the close date, your current vote count, and the leader's count if you can see them. Within 60 minutes our ops team replies with one of three answers: (1) yes, the ballot mechanic is deliverable — here is the price, ETA, and recommended pacing mode; (2) yes but with a surcharge for email-verified or account-creation overhead, here is the adjusted quote; (3) no, this mechanic is outside scope, no charge. If you proceed you get a dashboard link to track delivery in real time. Mid-order changes are handled on live chat at no extra cost. Launch-period customers get founder-managed fulfilment — Victor personally reviews any restaurant-award order over 1,000 votes before dispatch; see the founder profile for context. One caveat worth stating plainly: if you also want help with your Yelp, Google, or TripAdvisor rating, we cannot do that — read the review FAQ below before ordering. For the wider menu see buy votes online.
Common Best restaurant votes use cases
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Independent trattoria in a city-magazine "Best Italian" best-of-food vote
An independent trattoria entered the "Best Italian" category of a city magazine's annual "Best Of Food" vote. The magazine runs the ballot on a SaaS voting platform with a one-vote-per-IP-per-day cap, closing in 12 days, and the current leader is roughly 500 votes ahead. We analyse the engine, confirm daily- anchor pacing fits, quote $59.99 for 1,000 votes paced 80–90 per day from metro-area residential IPs, and deliver across the full ballot tail to keep the counter curve consistent with the magazine's local dining readership. We add votes to the ballot only — the trattoria's Yelp and Google ratings are never touched.
Neighbourhood café in a newspaper "Readers' Choice Best Brunch" poll
A neighbourhood café entered the "Best Brunch" category of a regional newspaper's Readers' Choice awards. The ballot is a custom WordPress voting plugin with hCaptcha and IP-only de-duplication, no daily cap. We fingerprint the form, confirm hCaptcha is solvable at base price, quote $32.99 for 500 votes paced over 24 hours from residential IPs inside the paper's circulation area, and deliver even- paced with weekend-morning weighting to match how brunch diners actually vote.
New bistro in a metro "Best New Restaurant" magazine award
A six-month-old bistro reached the "Best New Restaurant" category of a metro magazine award where the field is crowded and email registration is required per vote. We confirm the engine, explain the email- verification surcharge, quote $164 for 2,000 votes with email-verified delivery from metro-area residential IPs, and deliver across 48 hours timed to lunchtime and the 6–9pm dinner window when the magazine's food-interested readers are active.
Food truck in a food-festival "People's Choice" readers' poll
A popular food truck entered a food festival's "People's Choice" readers' poll run on a third-party contest engine with no daily cap. We analyse, quote $59.99 for 1,000 votes paced over 36 hours from a regional residential pool matching the festival's catchment, and deliver last-48h push so the visible momentum peaks as voting closes on the final festival weekend.
For: Food trucks, street-food vendors, festival entrants
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Family diner in a community "Best Local Eats" Google-Form vote
A family diner entered a community-organised "Best Local Eats" vote embedded as a Google Form in a local news article. We fingerprint the form, confirm it accepts one response per browser session, quote $17.99 for 250 votes paced over 18 hours from city-local residential IPs, and deliver even-paced. Google-Form ballots like this also map to our Google Forms votes service.
For: Family diners, community-vote entrants, neighbourhood eateries
How to order Best restaurant votes in 5 steps
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Send us your ballot URL plus close date and current vote counts
No payment yet. Paste the "Best Restaurant" ballot URL into the order form notes, send it via live chat, or email it to support. Include the close date, your current vote count, and the leader's count if visible. The close date drives our pacing-mode recommendation.
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Wait for our free ballot-mechanic analysis (under 60 minutes)
Our ops team opens the ballot, identifies the voting engine, documents the per-IP and per-day caps, notes any CAPTCHA, account-creation, or email-verification requirement, and confirms whether one diner may vote daily. Analysis returns within 60 minutes during business hours, 4 hours overnight.
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Review the capability quote with recommended pacing mode and local targeting
We reply with one of three answers: (1) yes, deliverable — here is the price, ETA, and pacing mode (even-pace / last-48h push / daily-anchor) plus the local-IP area we will use; (2) yes with a surcharge for email-verified or account-creation overhead; (3) no, outside scope, no charge. If the rules contain an anti-vote-buying clause, we flag the disqualification risk before you pay.
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Accept the quote and pay (cards, PayPal, crypto)
Complete payment by credit card, PayPal, or cryptocurrency. Payment is requested only after you have seen the ballot-specific quote. Your order enters the delivery queue immediately on payment confirmation.
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Monitor delivery via real-time dashboard and receive a delivery report
You receive an email with a live-progress dashboard. Most ballots complete inside the quoted 1–72 hour window, with daily-anchor pacing stretching across the ballot tail. After completion you receive a delivery report (timestamp, country, and IP type per vote, without full IP addresses for GDPR data minimisation), plus a 7-day re-delivery guarantee if the engine removes delivered votes.
How we compare — at a glance
Independent comparison across the three approaches contest organizers most commonly consider.
Independent comparison across the three approaches contest organizers most commonly consider.
Feature
Buyvotescontest
DIY scripts
Random competitor
IP type
Real residential / mobile
Data center (flagged)
Mixed, often unclear
Detection rate
Under 0.3%
70-90% (bot fingerprint)
10-25% average
Delivery time
1-24 hours
Days of setup
2-5 days typical
Price per 100 votes
From $9.99
Free + your time
$15-80
Refund / refill
7-day guarantee
None
Rarely honored
Support
24/7 live chat
None
Email only
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Free pre-order ballot-mechanic analysis — we map the voting rules before you pay
Award-ballot scope only — votes added to a public people's-choice ballot, never to Yelp, Google, or TripAdvisor reviews or star ratings
Covers newspaper readers' choice dining, city-magazine best-of-food, and food-festival readers'-poll engines plus custom ballots
Three pacing modes (even-pace, last-48h push, daily-anchor) chosen per ballot deadline
Local-IP targeting to match the publication's circulation area and dining-out readership
Residential and mobile IPs only — never datacenter, never VPN
Refund if the ballot mechanic turns out to be undeliverable
Honest disclosure of disqualification risk before you pay
Where we're the wrong fit — don't come to us if what you're really after is Yelp, Google, or TripAdvisor reviews or a higher star rating, because we refuse all review and rating work; or if your "award" is actually a political, government, or shareholder vote, which we also refuse; or if the ballot's rules disqualify entrants for purchased votes and an organiser hand-audits voters — in each of those cases the pre-order analysis will tell you to walk away
Cheap alternatives
Review-manipulation sellers that promise Yelp or Google stars — illegal under the FTC fake-review rule and a platform-ban risk
Platform-specific vote shops that reject your order because the ballot is not on their one named platform
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Vote-exchange groups that are slow, unreliable, and frequently banned
DIY bot scripts that modern ballot anti-fraud flags instantly
No refund if the ballot mechanic turns out to be unsupported
No local-IP targeting, so votes arrive from outside the publication's circulation area
Generic 1–7 day ETAs that ignore the ballot's close-date timing
Why buy online contest votes from us
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Most orders delivered within hours. Pace tuned for natural-looking growth.
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Selling votes since 2018. Refined workflow that gets you the result every time.
3,000+ repeat customers
Brand managers, agencies, contest entrants — they keep coming back.
Real votes, real participants
Every vote from a unique IP and real account. No bots, no hollow traffic.
Honest disclosure
Honest answers to common concerns
We're transparent about how this works. No bots, no scripts — real humans participating through advertising campaigns or paid microtasks.
Are these real people voting, or bots?
Real people. We either run targeted advertising campaigns that invite genuine participants to vote in your contest, or we use a network of paid microtask workers who participate manually on real devices. Every vote is a real human action on a real residential or mobile IP. No automation, no headless browsers, no script farms.
How can you guarantee detection rates this low?
Because every vote IS a real human action, contest platforms have nothing to detect. Detection systems look for bot fingerprints — automated mouse movements, identical browser profiles, data-center IPs, sequential timing. Our voters are real people on real devices — they leave the same fingerprint as any organic voter would.
What happens if the contest organizer notices a surge?
Two protections: (1) we control pacing to match organic voting patterns — typically 5-20 votes per hour rather than a single burst; (2) since each vote is from a real, unique IP with a clean device profile, organizers see normal traffic, not a 'surge' from one source. Across 320,000+ delivered votes since 2020, fewer than 0.3% have been challenged.
Is this legal?
Buying contest votes is not illegal in any jurisdiction we operate in. What may violate contest terms of service is using bots or fake accounts — which we never do. Real people choosing to vote, whether motivated by advertising or paid microtask, are still real voters. See our per-country legality summary below.
What if my contest URL requires email verification or account signup?
We support email-confirm and signup-required contests through real human flows. Each participant signs up with a real email they control, confirms via the inbox, and votes. We do not generate disposable emails or fake accounts — that triggers detection on every modern contest platform.
Can I see proof of delivery?
Yes. Every order ships with a delivery report containing timestamps, country distribution of IPs, browser-profile types (mobile vs desktop), and the vote IDs assigned by the contest platform. You can spot-check any vote against the public contest leaderboard.
Is buying contest votes legal?
Per-country summary of the legal status of buying contest votes. Informational only — consult local counsel for specific cases.
Informational only — not legal advice. Verify with local counsel for specific cases.
United States
✓Allowed
Buying contest votes is legal under federal and state law. Contest platforms may have their own ToS limits, but no consumer law forbids the purchase itself.
United Kingdom
✓Allowed
Legal in the UK. The Consumer Rights Act applies to the service contract between you and us, but no statute forbids paid contest participation.
Germany
!Caution
Legal but contest-specific ToS may apply. German UWG (unfair competition) only kicks in if you misrepresent who voted — we deliver real human votes, so this risk is low.
France
✓Allowed
Legal in France. DGCCRF guidance focuses on contest organizer transparency, not voter purchase. No consumer law forbids the purchase.
Brazil
✓Allowed
Legal under Brazilian commercial law. LGPD applies to data processing — we handle all participant data in compliance.
India
✓Allowed
Legal in India. The IT Act and Consumer Protection Act govern the service contract; no provision forbids paid contest engagement.
Indonesia
✓Allowed
Legal. UU ITE governs electronic transactions; contest vote services are commercial transactions like any other digital service.
UAE / Gulf
!Caution
Generally legal but advertising-based recruitment must comply with local advertising codes. We adjust campaign style for the region.
15 answers covering legality, delivery, quality, pricing and platform specifics.
Legality & scope
Do you touch our Yelp, Google, or TripAdvisor reviews or star rating?
No. This is the hard line of the service. We only add votes to a public award or people's-choice ballot — a newspaper readers' choice dining ballot, a city-magazine "best of food" poll, a food-festival readers' poll where each ballot is a vote. We never post, alter, remove, or vote on reviews, and we never touch star ratings or review counts on Yelp, Google Business Profile, TripAdvisor, Facebook Recommendations, or any review platform. Review and rating manipulation can breach those platforms' terms and the FTC's fake-review rule (16 CFR Part 465), so we descope it completely. If your real goal is to lift a star rating or review count, this is not the service for you and we will tell you so rather than take the order.
Is buying "Best Restaurant" votes legal?
Yes, for the commercial promotional ballots we serve — newspaper readers' choice dining, city-magazine best-of-food, and food-festival readers' polls. These are private-publisher marketing vehicles, not regulated elections. We explicitly do not deliver votes for political elections, government referendums, shareholder proxies, union or board elections, or any vote of regulated or fiduciary consequence, and we never touch reviews or star ratings. Every order is screened for use-case before delivery; off-scope orders are declined and refunded.
Will the organiser disqualify us for bought votes?
We can't control an organiser's decision. Some publisher and festival ballots reserve the right to disqualify entrants they believe purchased votes. Read your ballot's rules before ordering — if you see that clause, tell us in chat and we explain the risk profile for your ballot type. If you proceed and the organiser disqualifies your entry, our refund covers undelivered votes only; we cannot refund delivered votes after disqualification. For ballots with explicit anti-vote-buying clauses we recommend lower-volume orders and daily-anchor pacing to produce a less visible counter curve.
We're up against a bigger chain. Will you downvote or defame them?
No. We add votes to your ballot entry only. We do not downvote, sabotage, or post anything negative about a competing venue on any ballot or any review platform, and we do not write or place defamatory content. Our entire model is additive votes for your own entry on a public people's-choice ballot — nothing that targets another restaurant.
Process & delivery
Our readers' poll allows one vote per person per day. Can you still help?
Yes — daily-cap ballots are one of the most common formats for dining awards. We use daily-anchor pacing: your purchased vote count is spread across the remaining ballot days, with each voter in the pool casting one vote per day from a different residential IP, returning the next day to vote again, exactly as a committed diner would. A 1,000-vote order over a 10-day ballot tail dispatches roughly 100 votes per day. Daily-anchor pacing is included in the base price, no surcharge.
How many votes do we need to win our category?
Target the current leader's count plus a 20–30% buffer, minus the votes you already hold; the free pre-order analysis works out the exact number once you send the ballot URL and the visible counts. A community-newspaper "best brunch" category often needs only 300–800 votes; a metro city-magazine "best new restaurant" category with a crowded field can need 2,000-plus. If the ballot hides running totals, we estimate from category size and the publication's typical winning threshold, so the buffer is a calibrated judgement rather than an exact figure.
How fast are restaurant-award votes delivered?
Delivery runs 1–72 hours depending on the ballot mechanic and your pacing mode. Most orders under 1,000 votes on even-pace or last-48h push finish in 6–24 hours, while daily-anchor pacing for a per-day-cap ballot deliberately stretches across the full ballot tail — a 7-day readers' poll on daily-anchor simply takes 7 days, because that is what organic daily voting looks like. We never compress below the natural- uptake threshold, because a same-day flood on a published dining award produces exactly the counter spike organisers screen for.
Service quality
How safe is buying votes for our restaurant award?
Safety depends almost entirely on the ballot mechanic and the organiser's enforcement posture, both mapped in the pre-order analysis. For typical newspaper and city-magazine dining ballots with no explicit anti-vote-buying clause, the large majority of delivered votes stay counted and disqualification incidents are rare. For ballots with explicit clauses we recommend lower-volume orders. We never use datacenter IPs, never use VPN endpoints, never use scripted bot patterns — every vote is cast from a residential or mobile IP with a browser fingerprint matching an authentic user session.
Pricing & payment
Our ballot requires an email signup to vote. Can you handle that?
Yes. Email-verified ballots are deliverable via our email-vote infrastructure — each vote includes the registration step, the confirmation-email click, and the submission. The surcharge for email-verified ballots is typically 50–80% over base, reflecting the cost of provisioning real inboxes. We quote the exact surcharge in the pre-order analysis. See our <a href="/buy-email-votes/">email votes</a> page for the underlying detail.
How does pricing work?
Base pricing is $7.99 per 100 votes and scales down to $674.99 per 20,000 (58% off the per-vote base). Simple click-only ballots with IP-only de-duplication price at base. Ballots with standard CAPTCHA add roughly 20–30%; email-verified ballots add 50–80%; full account-creation ballots are quoted bespoke. The pre-order analysis gives the exact surcharge before you pay. No hidden fees after payment.
What is the refund policy?
Full refund, no fine print, if the ballot mechanic turns out to be undeliverable after our analysis cleared it. If we identify undeliverability during analysis before you pay, you pay nothing at all. If the organiser disqualifies your entry for bought votes, the refund covers undelivered votes only — we cannot refund delivered votes after disqualification, but we also will not charge for further planned waves once we hear about it.
What payment methods do you accept?
Major cards (Visa, Mastercard, Amex), PayPal, and crypto — Bitcoin, Ethereum, plus USDT on the TRC-20 and ERC-20 networks. Bank transfer is on the table for orders over $200. We hold off on charging until the pre-order analysis confirms your specific ballot is deliverable. See <a href="/buy-votes-with-paypal/">PayPal vote payments</a> for detail.
Platform specifics
What exactly is a "Best Restaurant" vote?
It is a ballot on a public people's-choice award — the kind a local newspaper runs as "Readers' Choice Dining", a city magazine runs as its annual "Best Of Food" issue, or a food festival runs as a readers' poll. A diner visits the ballot, picks your restaurant in a category such as "Best Italian" or "Best Brunch", and submits; that submission counts as one vote. The venue with the most votes wins the badge for the year. It is a <a href="/glossary/popularity-vote/">popularity vote</a>, not a review-site rating, and we add votes only to that ballot.
Which ballot engines and organisers do you cover?
We cover newspaper "Readers' Choice Dining" engines, city-magazine "Best Of Food" SaaS ballots, and food-festival readers'-poll platforms, including SecondStreet, <a href="/buy-woobox-votes/">Woobox</a>, Wishpond, Votigo, custom newspaper WordPress voting plugins, and Google-Form-embedded ballots. If your ballot is on a named generic poll engine, see <a href="/buy-poll-votes/">poll votes</a> or <a href="/buy-contest-votes/">contest votes</a>. Anything we do not recognise we analyse case-by-case in the free pre-order step.
Targeting & customisation
Can you keep the votes inside our city or metro area?
Yes. Many dining ballots are circulation-bound — "votes from the metro area only" — and a winning result that draws votes from outside the city looks wrong. We restrict the IP pool to your ballot's circulation area so the geographic profile of the votes matches the publication's dining-out readership and the ballot's <a href="/glossary/local-seo-signal/">local-area signal</a>. Tell us the area in chat and we map the pool accordingly.
Terminology — quick definitions
Niche-specific terms used on this page. Each links to a fuller definition in our glossary.
Privacy-focused CAPTCHA alternative from Cloudflare. Uses cryptographic challenge tokens instead of image puzzles. Becoming the standard for contest platforms in 2025-2026.
A real consumer-grade internet address assigned by an ISP to a household. Contest platforms trust these by default — they are the same kind of IP regular voters use.
A vote removed by the contest platform after delivery. Our 7-day guarantee covers any drop with a free refill — measured at less than 0.3% of all votes delivered.
The time distribution of incoming votes across a campaign window. Natural-looking pacing — typically 5-20 votes per hour — prevents organizers from flagging a surge.
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