2026 Best of Sedona Kudos: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the 2026 Best of Sedona Kudos ballot is and who runs it

2026 Best of Sedona Kudos is the Sedona readers'-choice ballot that Prescott Daily Courier runs for local businesses in Arizona. Unlike the CommunityVotes series, which runs separate city ballots such as CommunityVotes Chandler and CommunityVotes Gilbert, this program belongs to a daily newspaper. Prescott Daily Courier organizes it and hosts it on Second Street, the platform that powers every promotion on the publisher's dcourier.secondstreetapp.com account.

The vertical is best-of: supporters pick favorites among local businesses and services, the format common to readers'-choice contests across Arizona. The 2026 ballot sits at https://dcourier.secondstreetapp.com/2026-Best-of-Sedona-Kudos, and the 2025 edition had its own address at dcourier.secondstreetapp.com/Best-of-Sedona-Kudos-2025-Ballots, so each cycle gets a fresh page on the same account.

Prescott Daily Courier runs several other promotions on that account, including cash sweepstakes and a photo-based graduation contest, but Best of Sedona Kudos is its ballot aimed specifically at Sedona readers. The publisher's other community program with a page on this site is the Courier Cares Christmas Lighting Contest, which runs in a different season and a different format.

The table gathers every confirmed detail about this ballot.

The dated history of Best of Sedona Kudos

Best of Sedona Kudos has run twice so far, in 2025 and 2026. Both ran on Second Street under the Prescott Daily Courier account, and each carried its own ballot address on the dcourier.secondstreetapp.com domain. On that pattern a 2027 run is the obvious follow-up, though the organizer has not yet printed anything about a 2027 edition.

No other detail about this ballot is dated as tightly as the 2026 window. Voting opened July 8 and closed August 8, and the ballot is now closed. The promotion is registered in Ballot/VotingBallot format, which is Second Street's designation for a public voting ballot rather than a sweepstakes or a photo submission contest.

The category roster is missing from the organizer's pages, so the full category list is something to confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Nomination or entry dates ahead of the voting window are likewise absent from the organizer's pages, and no prize description has been published for either edition so far.

For a supporter planning around the program, the practical summary is a summer ballot from a daily newspaper, run in two consecutive years, with the 2026 stretch fixed at July 8 through August 8 and everything about the next cycle still to be announced by Prescott Daily Courier itself.

How a supporter votes on the Sedona Kudos ballot

The mechanic is simple and stricter than most readers'-choice ballots. A supporter opens the ballot at https://dcourier.secondstreetapp.com/2026-Best-of-Sedona-Kudos during the voting window, browses the categories on the Second Street page, and picks one business in each category they care about. The organizer's own wording sets the limit: instead of daily voting, voters can cast one vote per category in total.

That single-vote rule changes how support works. There is no daily return to build up a total over the window, so a supporter's choice in a category is final once cast. Businesses that want to win need their customers to show up and vote during the July-to-August stretch, because there is no second chance to add votes in the same category later.

Eligibility, meaning who may vote and whether an account or email is required, is not spelled out on the organizer's pages, and neither is any limit beyond the one-vote rule. The live ballot governs those details when a window is open.

Once the closing date passes, the ballot locks. The 2026 page now shows a closed promotion, and support for a business in the next edition means waiting for the new ballot address that the organizer publishes with each summer cycle.

How this ballot sits beside its Arizona neighbours

Best of Sedona Kudos shares its state with several other public-vote programs covered on this site, but it differs from most of them on three points: publisher, market and vote rule.

On the publisher point, this is a newspaper ballot. Prescott Daily Courier runs it alongside its sweepstakes and photo promotions, whereas the CommunityVotes programs in Buckeye, Tempe and the other covered cities answer to their own separate organizers. Best of Havasu is the closest neighbour in format, another Arizona best-of ballot, but it answers to another publisher and serves another market.

On the market point, the ballot is aimed at Sedona readers specifically, not at a metro-wide audience. The publisher is based in Prescott, yet the program name and its own promotion listing tie it to the Sedona market.

On the vote rule point, the one-vote-per-category-in-total limit sets this ballot apart from contests that allow daily returns. A Sedona supporter gets one shot per category, which concentrates the whole campaign into the summer window.

The Courier Cares Christmas Lighting Contest rounds out the publisher's community lineup with a seasonal program that runs on a different calendar entirely, so the two never compete for the same summer attention.

Strengthening support for a Sedona business on this ballot

The one-vote-per-category rule makes timing the decisive factor in this program. Since a supporter cannot come back tomorrow and vote again, a business has to reach its customers before they cast their single choice, ideally in the first weeks of the July 8 opening rather than in the final days before August 8.

What works here is direct asks: a sign at the register with the ballot address, a short post pointing regulars to the category where the business is listed, and a staff reminder during the window. Because the ballot lives on Second Street under the publisher's own domain, sharing the exact link matters more than asking people to search for it.

Prescott Daily Courier has printed nothing about organized outside vote-getting for this ballot, so any paid push deserves a check against whatever the live page says about outside help. The general methods that fit a single-vote readers'-choice format are covered on the votes guide, and the award-ballot specifics are on the award votes page.