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California Online Voting Contests

187 contests with public online voting in California — Athlete of the Week and more. Real, paced votes; honest guidance on each contest's rules.

Sports — Athlete of the Week & Player of the Year (17)

  • Bee's Best: Modesto Bee Softball Player of the Year

    The Modesto Bee's own "Bee's Best" softball award, distinct from the Fresno Bee's weekly multi-sport version. Coaches nominate using MaxPreps stats, then the public votes. The 2026 poll is confirmed active and closes June 24, 2026, covering the Central Valley and Sac-Joaquin Section.

  • California High School Baseball Player of the Week

    High School on SI (SBLive) runs two separate California prep baseball fan votes: a statewide poll covering all 1,700 CIF programs that closes Saturday 11:59 p.m. PT, and a Southern California playoff-specific poll that runs concurrently through the CIF Southern Section postseason. Both are unlimited manual votes with no account required.

  • California High School Baseball Player of the Year

    Statewide California · High School on SI / SBLive (Sports Illustrated)

    Annual statewide fan-vote watchlist award by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) at si.com/high-school/california, recognising the top CIF spring-season baseball player across NorCal and SoCal. Free to vote, no account needed, editorial final selection.

  • California High School Boys Basketball Player of the Week

    The High School on SI (SBLive) statewide fan vote for the top California boys basketball performance of the week. Editors at si.com set a field of roughly 20 nominees, anyone can vote with no account, and the ballot closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific — the same deadline that drives CIF postseason weeks into overnight surges.

  • California High School Football Player of the Week

    Statewide football-only fan poll published weekly by High School on SI (SBLive) at si.com, drawing 26–34 nominees from every CIF section across California. Eimesse Essis of Tustin won the Oct 17–19 week. Unlimited manual votes; automated scripts prohibited. Closes Monday 11:59 p.m. Pacific.

  • California High School Girls Basketball Athlete of the Week

    The High School on SI statewide fan vote for the best California girls basketball performance of the week. Twenty nominees drawn from every CIF section, anyone can vote with no account, and the ballot closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific — a tighter window than the football polls.

  • California High School Player of the Year

    Statewide California · High School on SI / SBLive (Sports Illustrated)

    Annual sport-specific statewide award by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) at si.com/high-school/california. Fan-vote watchlists cover boys and girls basketball, baseball, softball, football, and more across all CIF sections — NorCal and SoCal. Editorial staff name the final award; fan voting shapes the watchlist spotlight.

  • California High School Softball Player of the Week

    High School on SI (SBLive) runs a statewide fan vote for the best California prep softball performance each week. Editors pick 10 nominees from across all CIF sections — NorCal and SoCal combined — and anyone can vote with no account. The ballot closes Saturday at 11:59 p.m. PT.

  • California High School Softball Player of the Year

    Statewide California · High School on SI / SBLive (Sports Illustrated)

    Annual statewide fan-vote watchlist award by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) at si.com/high-school/california, recognising the top CIF spring-season girls softball player across NorCal and SoCal. Free to vote, no account needed, editorial final selection.

  • Fresno Bee Athlete of the Week

    Fresno is one of three McClatchy Bee papers running a weekly prep sports fan vote in California's Central Valley. This one is called "Bee's Best," it pulls nominees from baseball, softball, and track, and any reader can vote free with no account, confirmed live via a Yahoo Sports syndication dated April 2024.

  • Northern California High School Athlete of the Week

    Northern California · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

    Free weekly fan poll at si.com run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive), spotlighting standout prep athletes across seven CIF NorCal sections — Sac-Joaquin, North Coast, Central Coast, Central, Northern, San Francisco, and Oakland. No per-vote cap; automated scripts prohibited. Closes Monday 11:59 p.m. PT.

  • Sacramento Bee Athlete of the Week

    Sacramento · The Sacramento Bee (McClatchy)

    The Sacramento Bee (McClatchy) highlights top CIF Sac-Joaquin Section performers each week through editorial recognition. The Sacramento market's active public fan-vote poll is run by SBLive / High School on SI at si.com — free, no account, closes Monday 11:59 p.m. PT — covering Folsom, Elk Grove, Jesuit, Granite Bay, Del Oro, Rocklin, and dozens more.

  • Southern California Girls High School Athlete of the Week

    High School on SI's girls-specific weekly fan vote for Southern California prep standouts. Distinct from the all-gender SoCal poll — this ballot focuses exclusively on girls athletics across CIF Southern Section, LA City Section, and San Diego Section. No account required; closes Saturday or Sunday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific; automated scripts are prohibited and result in athlete disqualification.

  • Southern California High School Athlete of the Week

    Southern California · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

    Free weekly fan poll at si.com run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) spotlighting prep standouts across CIF Southern Section, LA City Section, and San Diego Section each sports season. No per-vote cap; automated scripts prohibited.

  • Southern California High School Baseball Player of the Week

    Southern California · High School on SI / SBLive Sports

    High School on SI's playoff-season fan vote covering the CIF Southern Section — all nine divisions, eight counties, roughly 600 programs — with a Saturday 11:59 p.m. PT close. The statewide California poll runs the regular season; this one runs when the games matter most.

  • Southern California High School Softball Player of the Week

    Southern California · High School on SI / SBLive Sports

    The High School on SI / SBLive fan vote for the best CIF Southern Section softball performance of the week. Editors nominate 10 players spanning all nine CIF-SS divisions, anyone votes with no account, and the ballot closes Saturday at 11:59 p.m. PT — a full day before Sunday's statewide softball poll opens its own final hours.

  • The Record Preseason Boys Soccer Player of the Year Poll

    Each December, The Record, the California newspaper at recordnet.com, turns its top 25 list of San Joaquin County boys soccer players into a preseason player of the year vote. Crowdsignal runs the voting page, and any reader can click a choice there. The 2025-26 window ended with voting closing Thursday, January 22 at 11:59 p.m., and earlier editions ran in 2023 and 2025.

Best of / Readers' Choice (155)

  • 2024 GGBR Calendar Contest

    The 2024 GGBR Calendar Contest is a photo fundraiser run by Golden Gate Basset Rescue of Petaluma, California, on the GoGo Photo Contest platform. Supporters vote for basset hound photos, and the top vote getters earn the prized cover photo, the center bio and a place in the rescue's Calendar 2024 promotions. The 2024 and 2026 editions are both confirmed.

  • 2026 Celebrate Lodi - People's Choice Awards

    The 2026 Celebrate Lodi - People's Choice Awards is an art award decided by public voting, run by the Lodi Community Art Center from its own website in Lodi, California. Confirmed editions appear in 2020, 2025 and 2026, and the 2026 cycle runs from March 1 through May 31. The art center has not printed a category list or a per-supporter rule on the ballot page, so the current cycle's fine print lives on lodiartcenter.org itself.

  • Alumni Alumni Awards

    The Pomona College Alumni Awards are run by the Pomona College Alumni Association Board in Claremont, California. Each year the board honors distinguished alumni and faculty whose achievements and service stand out. For the 2026 cycle, nominations close Thursday, January 15, recipients are announced in April, and honorees are celebrated during Alumni Weekend, April 30 through May 3. The ballot lives on pomona.edu.

  • Banning Beaumont Patch Readers' Choice

    Patch Media Corporation publishes the Banning Beaumont Patch Readers' Choice, a best-of ballot where readers of the Banning Beaumont, California Patch site pick local favorites. Both the 2025 and the 2026 edition are confirmed, and the ballot sits on Patch's own site. Patch's official rules allow a vote once per day for each listed category, and a nomination round precedes the poll. The organizer has not printed the round's start and end dates on its ballot page.

  • Best Dance And Live Music Clubs

    Metro Silicon Valley invites its readers to pick the best dance and live music clubs across Silicon Valley, California. Voting happens on the newspaper's own domain, and the 2026 voting window ran through July. This category has carried confirmed editions every cycle from 2018 onward, and the club that wins the live music slot has taken it repeatedly. The page below explains how a supporter casts a vote and what the organizer has chosen not to print.

  • Best Galleries And Museums

    Best Galleries And Museums is a public-vote category run by Metro Silicon Valley, the South Bay weekly publisher, on its own website. Ballots have appeared every year from 2018 through 2026, and the 2026 voting window sits in July. The publisher prints the category page but not the precise dates or the full rules, so the live ballot is where those details get settled.

  • Best Mexican Restaurants & Latin Food

    Metro Silicon Valley invites California readers across the South Bay to vote for their favorite Mexican and Latin American eateries through its Best Mexican Restaurants & Latin Food ballot. The program runs directly on metrosiliconvalley.com, the weekly's domain, and the 2026 voting window runs through July. Editions are confirmed for 2018 through 2026, and the publisher's pages tie the category back to The Best of Silicon Valley 2012. Exact open and close days, per-voter rules and any promotion rounds are not printed ahead of the ballot, so supporters should read the live form before casting a vote.

  • Best Movie Performances

    Best Movie Performances is TheWrap's year-end public vote on film acting, and the ballot lives at a thewrap.com address for a California readership. Four Decembers carry confirmed editions, 2023 through 2026, and every one of them landed in that month. The 2023 edition highlighted Margot Robbie, Emma Stone and Michael Fassbender among the year's acting MVPs, and the vote sits inside TheWrap's wider year-end best-of coverage.

  • Best Music Events

    Metro Silicon Valley invites its readers to name the region's favorite music events in an annual public poll carried on metrosiliconvalley.com itself, with no outside contest platform involved. The 2026 ballot runs through July 2026, and the publisher's printed rule allows a single vote per person in each category. Nine editions from 2018 through 2026 anchor the program as a recurring summer fixture for Silicon Valley, California.

  • Best of California State Parks 2026 online poll

    California State Parks Foundation runs the Best of California State Parks 2026 online poll, a statewide ballot hosted on the foundation's own calparks.org site. Park lovers across California nominated favorites through February 28, and the compiled ballot opened to public voting on March 11, staying open through April 11, 2026. Voters pick one park in each category and may add a note and a photo. Winners receive free vehicle entry to more than 200 state parks. Both 2025 and 2026 appear as edition years for this poll.

  • Best of Central California

    The Fresno Bee's annual Best of Central California readers-choice ballot, a nominate-then-vote awards program spanning 300+ categories that drew more than 1.2 million votes and named 713 winning businesses in its 2026 edition.

  • Best of Central Valley Business

    The Business Journal's Best of Central Valley Business runs a reader-vote-only ballot at thebusinessjournal.com/bestofsurvey/, covering Fresno and the Central Valley, with its 12th annual 2025 edition drawing 160,000-plus votes across a September 1 to October 31 window.

  • Best of Desert Community's Choice Awards

    The Best of Desert Community's Choice Awards is Gannett | USA TODAY Network's readers' choice ballot for Palm Springs, California, running on the network's Your Choice Awards site. Its confirmed editions are 2025 and 2026. In the 2026 cycle, nominations run October 8-29, the public vote runs December 16-30, and winners are revealed March 2, 2027. Supporters may return once each day in every category while voting is open.

  • Best Of Food Drink 1

    Best Of Food Drink 1 is the food and drink slice of the North Bay Bohemian's Best Of readers' picks programme. The weekly paper serves Sonoma and Napa counties in California and hosts the ballot on its own site at bohemian.com. Confirmed editions run in 2012, 2013 and 2026, and the voting window falls in August. It runs as a public vote under a one-vote-per-person rule.

  • Best of Healdsburg 2026

    Best of Healdsburg 2026 is the readers' choice ballot run by the Healdsburg Tribune for its California readership. Nominations have already closed and voting is open on the Tribune's own domain. Editions ran in 2023, 2024, 2025 and now 2026, and the paper treats the program as a yearly fixture of its Best Of coverage. The window's calendar and any vote rules live on the ballot page itself.

  • Best of La Jolla Reader’s Choice Awards

    The Best of La Jolla Reader’s Choice Awards let La Jolla residents, shoppers and visitors name their favorite local restaurants, boutiques, galleries and service providers. La Jolla Village News and Times of San Diego runs the ballot on its own La Jolla by the Sea site. The 2026 voting window runs June 6th through June 30th, 2026, after a nomination round that opened May 5th. Each person may vote once per category, and complete voter information is required for a vote to count.

  • Best of Lodi

    The Lodi News-Sentinel's Best of Lodi readers' poll, run at lodinews.com for the San Joaquin County wine-country city, with 100% public participation and no selection committee narrowing the field before voters decide who wins each category. 2026 voting is confirmed running.

  • Best of Marin

    Pacific Sun's Best of Marin runs a direct reader ballot across 100+ categories for Marin County businesses at pacificsun.com/best-of-ballot/, covering towns from Sausalito to Novato. No fixed vote cap or close date is published; confirm current timing on the live site.

  • Best of North State Community's Choice Awards

    Redding, California's own daily newspaper runs the Best of North State Community's Choice Awards at redding.gannettcontests.com on the SecondStreet platform. Four editions are confirmed so far, 2023 through 2026, with the 2026 ballot combining nominations and voting on one page from July 9 through October 1, 2026. Past that window, the paper's own live ballot is what actually settles any category list or vote cap, confirmed fresh each cycle.

  • Best of OC

    Orange Coast Magazine's Best of OC readers-choice program has run since 1974, pairing a public reader vote with editors' picks at orangecoast.com, and now includes Best of OC Legal, a confirmed sub-vertical whose 2026 edition covering legal professionals has already published.

  • Best of Orange County

    The Orange County Register's Best of Orange County readers-choice awards span more than 200 categories across the county's cities, run through separate online nomination and voting rounds, with the 2026 cycle confirmed active in May and the program's public presence currently centered on its Facebook page rather than a dedicated voting microsite.

  • Best of Parents Press East Bay

    Parents’ Press publishes the Best of Parents Press East Bay ballot, an annual readers’ choice program for families in the East Bay part of the San Francisco Bay Area in California. The ballot is carried on the publisher’s own website. Nomination runs from March through early April, and the second round of final voting runs from mid April through the end of May. Supporters vote separately for each Bay Area region, so an East Bay business is voted on inside its own regional ballot.

  • Best of Sacramento

    Sacramento News & Review's Best of Sacramento pairs a readers' poll with editors' picks at bestofsac.com, a 25-plus-year tradition whose current post-COVID operating status is not confirmed in the public record available here.

  • Best of San Diego

    San Diego Magazine's annual Best of San Diego readers-choice ballot, a public vote spanning more than 200 categories across food, drink, health, and city life at bosdvote.sdmag.com.

  • Best of San Diego & Best Restaurants

    San Diego Magazine's Best of San Diego and Best Restaurants ballot spans roughly 150 categories across food, beauty, home, and travel, with one vote per category per person, fraudulent votes removed, and separate nomination and voting rounds each year ahead of the magazine's live August celebration.

  • Best of San Joaquin Community's Choice Awards

    The Best of San Joaquin Community's Choice Awards lets the San Joaquin area honour its favourite businesses and organizations. The local Gannett / USA TODAY Network paper produces the program, which runs on Your Choice Awards at yourchoiceawards.com/stockton/. In 2026 the nomination round ran July 8-29 and voting runs September 15-29, with winners announced December 9. Each supporter may cast one vote per day.

  • Best of San Leandro

    Best of San Leandro is a business awards ballot run by the San Leandro Chamber of Commerce on the chamber's own website. Confirmed editions ran in 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2026. The chamber asks supporters to submit votes by January 20th at 11:59 PM PST. Local businesses are nominated by a committee and then voted on by the public across categories such as Food & Drink, Beauty and Small Business.

  • Best of Santa Barbara

    The Santa Barbara Independent's Best of Santa Barbara readers' poll, voted at bestof.independent.com rather than the paper's main site, spans roughly 221 categories, an unusually wide spread for a single-city ballot, with nominations opening in June, voting running July through August, and results announced each October.

  • Best of Santa Cruz County

    Santa Cruz County, California runs Best of Santa Cruz County, a readers'-choice ballot published by the alt-weekly Good Times at goodtimes.sc. Good Times has carried a dated edition of the ballot in 2013, 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2026. Exactly when the current cycle opens and closes is not printed on the page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

  • Best Of Sensitive Skin More Better

    Sensitive Skin Magazine, a California publication, runs Best Of Sensitive Skin More Better as a public favorites vote on the magazine's own website. The 2026 window runs July 1 through July 31. Editions have appeared in 2015 and in every year from 2019 through 2026, and the editors trace the feature's origins to a 2014 best-of post. The ballot page prints no category lineup and no limit on repeat voting.

  • Best of Silicon Valley

    Metro Silicon Valley's Best of Silicon Valley is a write-in reader ballot at metrosiliconvalley.com, covering San Jose and the wider Silicon Valley region across more than 200 categories, food and dining, arts, services, nightlife, and cannabis, run by a longtime alt-weekly community institution.

  • Best of SoCal

    Best of SoCal is the readers choice awards ballot published by the Santa Monica Daily Press for Southern California. The 2026 cycle runs a nomination period from June 10 to July 4, followed by finalist voting from July 5 to July 31 on the newspaper's own site. Confirmed editions exist for 2024 and 2026, and questions about the program go to [email protected].

  • Best of the Bay Readers' Poll

    The Best of the Bay Readers' Poll is the San Francisco Bay Area's readers' poll, presented by 48 Hills and the Bay Guardian on the publisher's own domain, sfbg.com. The 2025 voting window ran September 2 to September 31 as the organizer printed them, and confirmed editions cover every year from 2021 through 2026. Readers honor favorite Bay Area people, places and businesses in categories from Best Burrito to Best Politician.

  • Best of the East Bay

    East Bay Express's readers' choice ballot for Oakland, Berkeley, and the wider East Bay, voted online at eastbayexpress.com/best-of-ballot/, capped each year by the alt-weekly's confirmed annual party and awards.

  • Best of the North Bay

    North Bay Bohemian's Best of the North Bay readers-choice program covers Sonoma and Napa counties, run through a nomination round followed by finalist voting across 50 categories in arts, dining, and services, with results published at bohemian.com each year.

  • Best of the North Coast

    The Times-Standard, a California newspaper, organizes Best of the North Coast as a readers' choice ballot for local businesses, hosted on the paper's own website. The ballot address doubles as a users' guide and FAQ set, and the paper reworked the form after reader feedback. Edition years are 2023 and 2026, and voting runs from December into February.

  • Best Pubs

    Best Pubs is the pub-focused slice of Metro Silicon Valley's best-of balloting, hosted on the publisher's own site at metrosiliconvalley.com. The 2026 voting window runs through July, and confirmed editions reach back to 2018 with the publisher tracing the survey line to 2012. Unlike the wide Best of Silicon Valley survey, this ballot concentrates on pubs and bars across Silicon Valley, California.

  • Best Sports Bars

    Metro Silicon Valley runs Best Sports Bars as part of its Best of Silicon Valley readers' choice coverage. The ballot lives on the publisher's own site at metrosiliconvalley.com. Confirmed editions run from 2018 through 2026, and the 2026 voting window is listed for July. Day-level open and close dates, any per-supporter vote rule and eligibility terms are not printed in the material behind this page, so readers should confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The program is a business award in the best-of vertical, decided by public vote across Silicon Valley, California.

  • Best Theater And Stage

    Metro Silicon Valley invites South Bay readers to pick their favorite local theater and stage talent on the weekly's own website. The 2026 ballot is open through July, with the confirmed window running July 1 to July 31, 2026. Editions have run every year from 2018 through 2026, making this a long-running California readers-choice tradition.

  • Best Vegetarian

    Best Vegetarian is the vegetarian dining category ballot that Metro Silicon Valley, the weekly paper describing itself as Silicon Valley's Leading Weekly, runs for its South Bay readership in California. Voting is a public vote hosted on metrosiliconvalley.com, the paper's own domain, and the confirmed 2026 window runs through July. Metro has not printed the day-level open and close times or any per-supporter rule, so a business that wants to plan a push around this ballot has to confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Confirmed editions reach back to 2018, and the paper's own page ties the program to its long-running Best of Silicon Valley franchise.

  • Bestof2021

    The Best Of Santa Barbara 2021 Readers' Poll is the Santa Barbara Independent's annual readers' choice ballot for Santa Barbara businesses. Voting ran from August 5 through September 1, and winners appeared in the Best Of Santa Barbara issue published October 21. This page explains the ballot, its confirmed window, how supporters vote, and where the organizer's published details end.

  • Bestof2022 (independent)

    The Best of Santa Barbara 2022 Readers' Poll is the annual readers' choice ballot run by the Santa Barbara Independent for its California market. The 2022 cycle opened nominations on June 9 and voting ran from August 4 through August 31. The organizer's FAQ for businesses describes the ballot as covering many categories and sets a minimum number of answers per ballot. Confirmed editions reach back to 2018, with the most recent confirmed run in 2026.

  • Big Bear Community Scarecrow Contest

    The Big Bear Community Scarecrow Contest invites residents, homeowners and businesses across Big Bear Valley to decorate scarecrows, ofrendas and calacas for the fall season. Big Bear Valley communities run the program annually on their own site at bigbear.com. The 2026 registration deadline was September 23rd, voting runs September 30th through November 3rd, and prize winners are announced November 6th, 2026.

  • Board of Fur-rectors Photo Contest

    The Board of Fur-rectors Photo Contest is a charity photo fundraiser run by Joybound People & Pets of Walnut Creek, California, hosted on GoGo Photo Contest. Unlike the Best of Marin readers ballot, this program elects two honorary Fur-rectors to an animal welfare board. The 2025 voting window ran from April 2 through April 30, 2025, closing at 8 pm Pacific Time, and the program counts 2025 and 2026 as its edition years on an annual footing.

  • Category Readers Choice

    The Category Readers Choice is The Almanac's reader-voted best-of ballot for California, carried on almanacnews.com, the newspaper's own domain. The listed window for the 2026 cycle spans August 2026, and the organizer requires every ballot to name at least five businesses spread across categories. Editions for 2025 and 2026 each carry their own pages, and the precise daily dates are left to the live ballot.

  • CommunityVotes Apple Valley

    CommunityVotes runs CommunityVotes Apple Valley, a best-of ballot for Apple Valley, California, where residents put forward their favorite businesses, people and services. Nominations for the 2026 cycle run from July 5 through October 25, hosted on the CommunityVotes platform at applevalleyca.communityvotes.com. Rules such as category lists and per-supporter limits are absent from the published page, so check the live ballot before relying on them. This page collects what is confirmed and explains how a supporter takes part today.

  • CommunityVotes Burbank

    Burbank, California is home to CommunityVotes Burbank, run by a local CommunityVotes affiliate at burbankca.communityvotes.com. Confirmed history runs two rounds deep, a 2025 debut followed by 2026, and the 2026 round's own page already carries a "Thank you for voting! Click Here to See the Winners!" notice rather than an open ballot. Category names, a per-voter limit, and a day-by-day nomination or voting window go unlisted on that page.

  • CommunityVotes Carson

    CommunityVotes Carson is a best-of ballot for businesses, people and services in Carson, California. CommunityVotes runs it alongside a local partner, hosting the ballot on its own domain at carson.communityvotes.com. In the 2026 cycle nominations open on July 5 and close on October 25. Only this single edition is confirmed so far, and the category list, any vote cap and the eligibility rules are not printed on the page.

  • CommunityVotes Chino

    CommunityVotes Chino 2026 is a community awards ballot for Chino, California, operated by CommunityVotes alongside a local partner on the CommunityVotes platform at chino.communityvotes.com. The nomination period runs August 5 to November 29 in 2026, and 2026 is the only edition year published so far. A business hoping to be listed first has to get nominated by its own customers during that window, because the categories, the voting-phase dates and the per-supporter rules have not been printed by the organizer.

  • CommunityVotes Chula Vista

    Two confirmed editions, 2025 and 2026, back CommunityVotes Chula Vista, California's readers'-choice business ballot run by a local CommunityVotes partner at chulavista.communityvotes.com. The current page has already moved past voting into its results stage, dated May 2026, and reminds winners that awards are made to order and can take 6 to 8 weeks. That page prints no roster of categories, sets no cap on a single supporter's votes, and gives no day-level date for its window; confirm on the live ballot each cycle once nominations return.

  • CommunityVotes Clovis

    CommunityVotes Clovis is the 2026 community voting awards ballot for Clovis, California, which presents itself as that city's official platform. It is organized by CommunityVotes and a local partner. Nominations opened August 5 and close November 29, 2026. The platform behind it has hosted community voting awards for media outlets since 2014, and its promotion terms allow each supporter a single vote for any one Finalist within a category while the Voting Period runs. Category and voting-phase details show on the ballot itself.

  • CommunityVotes Costa Mesa

    CommunityVotes Costa Mesa is a public-vote awards programme for Costa Mesa, California, with CommunityVotes and a local partner behind it. The 2026 ballot is the first confirmed edition, and its nomination period runs July 18 to November 8. Community members nominate whichever Costa Mesa businesses, people and services they rate highest, and the published promotion terms cap each supporter at one vote for a Finalist in a category. Voting-phase dates after nominations close are not printed, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

  • CommunityVotes El Cajon

    CommunityVotes El Cajon 2026 is a live local awards ballot for El Cajon, California, run by CommunityVotes with its local partner on the CommunityVotes platform. Businesses, people and services are nominated by the public, and the nomination period runs from August 5 to November 29. The one confirmed edition is the 2026 ballot, so the program's future editions and full rules are things a nominated business should read straight from the live site.

  • CommunityVotes El Monte

    CommunityVotes El Monte is the 2026 community award ballot for El Monte, California. CommunityVotes operates the platform, and the page describes a program where residents nominate their favorite local businesses and the people and services behind them. Nominations opened on July 18 and close on November 8, 2026. Only this single 2026 edition is confirmed so far, so category lists, per-supporter rules and any later edition should be checked against the live ballot rather than assumed from other CommunityVotes markets.

  • CommunityVotes Escondido

    Escondido · CommunityVotes Escondido

    CommunityVotes Escondido has confirmed two straight nomination editions, 2025 and 2026, on the CommunityVotes network's dedicated page at escondidoca.communityvotes.com for Escondido, California, in San Diego County. The live 2026 window runs August 19 through December 13. Past that window, this page finds neither a category list nor a vote cap posted. Confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

  • CommunityVotes Fairfield

    CommunityVotes Fairfield is the 2026 community awards ballot for Fairfield, California, organized by CommunityVotes together with a locally based partner. Nominations are accepted between July 18 and November 8, 2026, and businesses, people and services in the city can be recognized by the public. It differs from larger California best-of ballots because it covers one city rather than a region. Whether the program returns after 2026 is not yet published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

  • CommunityVotes Hesperia

    CommunityVotes Hesperia is a 2026 best-of ballot for Hesperia, California, run on the CommunityVotes platform by a local CommunityVotes partner. The nomination period opened July 5 and runs to October 25, and supporters name the local businesses, the people and the services they rate highest in the Hesperia market. The category list, any per-supporter limit and the eligibility rules are not printed in advance, so anyone planning around the ballot should read the live nomination form before relying on a detail this summary does not carry. It is the first confirmed edition.

  • CommunityVotes Irvine

    CommunityVotes Irvine is a city-level best-of ballot for Irvine, California, organized by a local CommunityVotes partner on the platform's own domain. Its 2026 nomination period is open from July 5 to October 25. The ballot invites residents to recognize the businesses, people and services they value most in one city market rather than across a county or region. It is the first confirmed edition, the category list and voting rules go unpublished, so check the live ballot for anything the nomination page leaves out.

  • CommunityVotes Jurupa Valley

    CommunityVotes Jurupa Valley is the Community Voting Awards platform serving Jurupa Valley, California, in 2026, run by a local CommunityVotes partner. The organizer states its nomination window: July 19 to November 8. Nominations cover favorite businesses, people and services in the city. The ballot works as a public vote, and details beyond the published nomination window are not stated by the organizer.

  • CommunityVotes Lake Forest

    CommunityVotes (local partner) runs CommunityVotes Lake Forest, a best-of business awards ballot for Lake Forest, California, hosted on the CommunityVotes platform at lakeforestca.communityvotes.com. The program's confirmed editions are 2025 and 2026. The 2026 cycle moved into its results phase in August 2026, with the winners posted on the site and made-to-order awards available to order. Nominations in the 2025 cycle closed before Sunday July 13 at 11:59 pm.

  • CommunityVotes Livermore

    CommunityVotes Livermore is the community-voted awards program for Livermore, California, run under the CommunityVotes banner on its own city platform. The 2026 edition is confirmed, a 2025 edition also ran, and the site posted its 2026 winners in May 2026. The organizer has not printed the window dates or the category list in the published materials for this program.

  • CommunityVotes Menifee

    CommunityVotes Menifee 2026 is Menifee's community voting awards ballot, published at menifee.communityvotes.com by CommunityVotes alongside a local partner. Nominations run from July 19 until November 8. Residents submit their picks for local businesses, people and services on that same address, and just one edition, 2026, is confirmed, so treat the schedule as provisional.

  • CommunityVotes Merced

    Merced, California's CommunityVotes ballot runs through a local CommunityVotes partner at merced.communityvotes.com, now two years deep with 2025 and 2026 both confirmed. The live page currently shows a results banner rather than an open ballot, with made-to-order winner awards taking 6 to 8 weeks to fulfill and deliver. A category list and a per-voter rule stay off that page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

  • CommunityVotes Norwalk

    CommunityVotes Norwalk is a 2026 community voting awards ballot for Norwalk, California, whose organizer is CommunityVotes' local partner. Nominations are being accepted between July 19 and November 8. Unlike publisher-led best-of programs elsewhere in California, this one answers to a local partner rather than a media brand, and the categories that make up the ballot are not printed ahead of the cycle.

  • CommunityVotes Ontario

    CommunityVotes (local partner) runs CommunityVotes Ontario, a best-of awards ballot for Ontario, California, hosted on the CommunityVotes platform at ontarioca.communityvotes.com. The 2026 edition is live and its nomination period runs from August 5 to November 29. Residents put forward the enterprises, individuals and services their city rates highest. No category roster or per-supporter rule is printed anywhere in the published material, so nominees should read the live form before planning any push for support.

  • CommunityVotes Palmdale

    CommunityVotes Palmdale runs a 2026 awards ballot for the city of Palmdale, California, hosted at palmdaleca.communityvotes.com under a local partner arrangement with CommunityVotes. Residents are invited to put forward the local enterprises, individuals and services they favor in the Antelope Valley city. Nominations open May 18 and close September 13, 2026. No later edition has been announced by the organizer.

  • CommunityVotes Perris

    CommunityVotes Perris is a 2026 community voting awards site for Perris, California, where residents champion hometown businesses, people and services they believe make the city great. CommunityVotes runs the ballot with a locally based collaborator, and nominations run July 19 through November 8 in the 2026 cycle. This page gathers what is published about the window, the counting rule, the ballot address and how the Perris programme sits beside other California best-of contests.

  • CommunityVotes Rancho Cucamonga

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    CommunityVotes Rancho Cucamonga has confirmed two straight nomination editions, 2025 and 2026, on the CommunityVotes network's dedicated page at ranchocucamonga.communityvotes.com. The live 2026 window runs July 18 through November 8. Past that window, the page shows no category list and no specific vote cap; all the same, confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

  • CommunityVotes Redding

    Redding, California has a new community awards ballot for 2026 run under the CommunityVotes name. The site asks residents to recognize the local businesses, people and services they value most, with nominations open from July 19 to November 8. Unlike the state's larger best-of franchises, this is the first confirmed edition, so the long-term schedule and category roster are still taking shape.

  • CommunityVotes Redwood City

    CommunityVotes Redwood City serves Redwood City, California from redwoodcity.communityvotes.com, organized by a partner working locally. Only two rounds have run so far, 2025 and then 2026, and the second one is over, the operator swapped in a winners page during June. Several details never made it onto the site, no breakdown of categories, no stated limit on votes per supporter, and no exact calendar date for either end of the window. Confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

  • CommunityVotes Roseville

    CommunityVotes Roseville is the 2026 community voting awards site for Roseville, California, organized by CommunityVotes alongside a local partner. Nominations are open from August 19 to December 13. Supporters put forward their favorites among local businesses, people and services, and the ballot sits at rosevilleca.communityvotes.com. Just the 2026 edition is confirmed, and neither the category list nor any per-supporter rule has been printed.

  • CommunityVotes Salinas

    CommunityVotes Salinas 2026 is the community voting awards program for Salinas, California, presented under the CommunityVotes name by a local partner. The 2026 ballot is live, and nominations run from May 18 to September 13. Supporters put forward favorite local businesses, people and services, and the organizer's promotion terms let each supporter cast a single vote for any Finalist in a category across the Voting Period. This page covers the ballot, its dates, its rules and how it sits beside other California programs.

  • CommunityVotes San Leandro

    A San Leandro-based partner runs CommunityVotes San Leandro under the wider CommunityVotes network, publishing at sanleandro.communityvotes.com. This ballot has run twice, once in 2025 and again in 2026, and the 2026 round already wrapped in August. The live page shows posted results and notes that winner awards are being made to order. Category rules, a vote limit and the exact day-level dates all stay off the page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

  • CommunityVotes San Ramon

    San Ramon, California hosts CommunityVotes San Ramon, organized through a local CommunityVotes partner at sanramon.communityvotes.com. Two editions are confirmed so far, 2025 and 2026, placing this among the newer markets in the CommunityVotes network covered here. The 2026 promotion for San Ramon currently reads closed, and the homepage already points visitors toward results instead of an open ballot. A category roster, a per-voter rule, and the dates for whatever cycle comes next go unpublished on that page.

  • CommunityVotes Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara, California hosts CommunityVotes Santa Barbara, organized through a local CommunityVotes partner at santabarbara.communityvotes.com. The site's own homepage breaks its cycle into three labeled stages for Santa Barbara - a Nomination Period opens the process, a Voting Period follows it, and a Winners Period closes it out. Santa Barbara's confirmed history spans two editions against that structure so far, 2025 and 2026. The 2026 promotion already reads closed, and a Winners 2026 heading on the site points toward results. A category list and the exact dates each stage runs go unpublished beyond that.

  • CommunityVotes Santa Rosa

    Santa Rosa, California hosts CommunityVotes Santa Rosa, organized through a local CommunityVotes partner at santarosaca.communityvotes.com. Unlike some CommunityVotes markets, Santa Rosa's own pages print two specifics most don't - nominations close before Sunday, March 29, at 11:59 p.m., and each account, tied to one email address, gets one vote per business per category. Confirmed editions for Santa Rosa run two deep so far, 2025 plus 2026, and the 2026 promotion already reads closed. A category list is the one detail that still goes unpublished.

  • CommunityVotes Simi Valley

    CommunityVotes Simi Valley is a community awards ballot for Simi Valley, California, run under the CommunityVotes platform by a local partner. The 2026 edition invites residents to recognize their favorite local shops, individuals and service providers, with nominations open from May 18 to September 13. Voting is a direct public vote on the platform's own site, and a registered e-mail address governs how often a supporter may act. Whether the ballot returns after 2026 has not been announced.

  • CommunityVotes South Gate

    CommunityVotes South Gate 2026 is a city-level ballot serving South Gate, California, hosted on the CommunityVotes platform at southgate.communityvotes.com and run by a local CommunityVotes partner. Unlike the larger regional ballots on the same network, this one serves a single city and is currently in its nomination phase, which runs from August 5 through November 29. Only the 2026 edition is confirmed, and the category roster and the voting rules are not published on the site.

  • CommunityVotes Sunnyvale

    CommunityVotes Sunnyvale is the community voting awards platform for Sunnyvale, California, run under the CommunityVotes name. The 2025 and 2026 cycles are confirmed, and the 2026 results phase closed in August 2026 with the winners announced. A nomination period precedes voting, and supporters cast a single vote for a given Finalist in a given category. The category list for the next cycle, and its day-level dates, are not fixed on any standing page, so supporters and businesses should confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

  • CommunityVotes Thousand Oaks

    CommunityVotes Thousand Oaks is the community favorites ballot for Thousand Oaks, California, put on by a local partner under the CommunityVotes name at thousandoaksca.communityvotes.com. The 2025 and 2026 cycles are both confirmed editions, and the live 2026 nomination window runs from May 18 through September 13. Dates for the voting phase that follows, the category names and any vote limit stay unpublished on the site, so supporters and businesses should work from the live ballot before building any plan.

  • CommunityVotes Torrance

    CommunityVotes Torrance is a city-level business awards ballot for Torrance, California, run by a local partner under the CommunityVotes brand. Edition years on file are 2024 and 2026, and the 2026 cycle ended with winners announced in May 2026. Supporters nominate during a nomination round, then cast email-backed votes with a cap of a single vote in a category for a given business. Window dates for the coming cycle are not published.

  • CommunityVotes Tracy

    CommunityVotes Tracy 2026 is the local awards ballot for Tracy, California, organized by CommunityVotes with a local partner. Nominations opened August 5 and close November 29, 2026. Only 2026 has been confirmed so far as an edition, and the category roster, the per-voter rule and any vote ceiling are printed on the live ballot rather than announced in advance.

  • CommunityVotes Vacaville

    CommunityVotes Vacaville is the 2026 community voting awards ballot for Vacaville, California, run on CommunityVotes' own platform at vacaville.communityvotes.com together with a local partner. Residents nominate the local businesses, people and services they admire, and nominations stay open between May 18 and September 13. Only one edition of this market has been established so far, so details beyond the printed window, such as the category roster, need to come from the ballot itself once it is open.

  • CommunityVotes Vallejo

    CommunityVotes Vallejo 2026 is a community awards ballot for Vallejo, California, that CommunityVotes and a local partner run on their own platform. Residents nominate the local shops, professionals and services they want recognized in Vallejo. Nominations run from July 18 to November 8. This is the first confirmed edition, so returning-year questions stay open, and readers should check the live Vallejo ballot for categories and rules.

  • CommunityVotes Victorville

    CommunityVotes Victorville is a 2026 community awards ballot for Victorville, California, inviting residents to name the city's favorite firms, people and services. The ballot sits on CommunityVotes' own site, run through a local partner. The nomination period opened May 18 and closes September 13, with the general voting phase following inside a May-to-September window. This is the only Victorville edition confirmed so far, which sets it apart from longer-running California ballots such as Best of Marin and the Orange County program.

  • CommunityVotes Visalia

    CommunityVotes (local partner) operates CommunityVotes Visalia, a best-of business ballot for Visalia, California, hosted on the CommunityVotes platform at visalia.communityvotes.com. In 2026, nominations run from July 18 through November 8, so local businesses can be nominated and supported through the fall. The 2026 cycle is the single confirmed edition; the organizer has published no category list and no per-supporter rule, which is the first thing a nominating business should check.

  • CommunityVotes Walnut Creek

    CommunityVotes Walnut Creek is Walnut Creek, California's community voting awards platform, and CommunityVotes fronts it through a local partner. The 2026 voting window runs from Wednesday August 12 at 6:00 am until Sunday September 13 at 11:59 pm. The ballot ran in 2025 and is running again in 2026, and it lets residents back their favorite Walnut Creek businesses.

  • Daily Bulletin Readers' Choice

    Inland Valley Daily Bulletin's annual readers-choice ballot for San Bernardino County and the wider Inland Empire, hosted on the shared SCNG readerschoice.la platform. It runs as a sister program to the Daily News RC ballot in Los Angeles County, with results published each year in an Issuu digital edition.

  • Daily Press Fan's Choice Preseason Boys Soccer Player of the Year

    Most California high school ballots on this site are weekly honours that reset every seven days. This Daily Press award works differently. The newspaper at vvdailypress.com invites readers to name a preseason boys soccer honoree ahead of the season, with the vote hosted at Crowdsignal (poll.fm). The soccer ballot ran in 2023 and came back in 2024, the window falls in December, and the 2024 edition closed at midnight on January 7, 2025.

  • Diablo Magazine Best of the East Bay

    Diablo Magazine's reader vote for the Contra Costa and Tri-Valley side of the East Bay, covering Danville, Livermore, Pleasanton, and Walnut Creek, cast online at vote.diablomag.com with 2026 voting confirmed active and winners published in the July issue. A separate program from East Bay Express's Oakland-and-Berkeley ballot of the same name.

  • Fan's Choice the Tulare County Girls Basketball Player of the Year

    Tulare County readers decide the county's top girls high school basketball player each season on the Fan's Choice ballot. Crowdsignal hosts the vote at poll.fm/16546484. Two editions are on file, 2025 and 2026; the 2026 vote ran from January until the conclusion of the basketball season and is now marked closed.

  • Fan's choice: Vote for the Tulare County boys basketball player of the year

    Tulare County basketball fans choose a boys player of the year through a public ballot on Crowdsignal, reached at poll.fm. Two cycles are on the books, 2025 and 2026, and voting in both landed across January and February. The 2026 poll shows a closed marker, and the organizer prints no dated open or close point anywhere.

  • For Local Author In Literary Contest

    California supporters who follow Z107.7 FM Joshua Tree vote in the For Local Author In Literary Contest, a public-vote ballot run by station KCDZ on its own website. The ballot page names reporter David Haldane and states that voting ends October 31. Confirmed editions appear in 2018 and 2025. The station prints no open date, no category roster and no per-supporter rule, so the live ballot is the authority every cycle.

  • For Love Manifest Equality Art Show

    Unlike Best of Orange County, which sorts local businesses into reader categories, For Love Manifest Equality Art Show is a single-theme public vote that LA Weekly runs on the publisher's own site for California. The 2026 voting window runs September 1 through September 30, 2026. The programme ties back to a civil-rights art and music night once staged at a former Big Lots in Hollywood.

  • For Me The Sob

    For Me The Sob is an open reader ballot published by OC Weekly for Orange County, California. Its page runs under the title Vote for Me, the SOB! and is hosted by the publisher itself. Editions are confirmed for 2001, 2018 and 2019, with voting falling in November. The precise window dates, the category lineup and any cap on repeat voting go unpublished by OC Weekly, and no year for the next cycle has been announced.

  • For Our Brilliant Young L A Chefs In Food S Peoples Best New Chefs Awards

    LA Weekly asks California readers to back the region's brilliant young chefs through Food & Wine's People's Best New Chefs Awards. The ballot lives at laweekly.com on the publisher's own domain, and the 2024, 2025 and 2026 editions are confirmed, with the 2026 voting window falling in September. This best-of program is a public vote, and the publisher has printed no rules layer on the page.

  • For The Best Live Band In L A

    LA Weekly asks its readers to pick the best live band in Los Angeles, California, through a poll published on the publisher's own website. The poll's editions run 2024 through 2026, with the 2026 window sitting in September. The poll grew out of a call for under-the-radar L.A. groups performing live around town, and a later stage lets supporters choose among the leading acts. Anyone planning a push should read the ballot itself first, because the printed rules can change from cycle to cycle.

  • For The Most Inspiring Bodyspace Transformation

    Iron Man magazine runs a public vote for the most inspiring BodySpace transformation from its Los Angeles, California base. The ballot lives on ironmanmagazine.com, and voting begins April 9 in the published cycle. Five standout transformations are selected each month for features on the magazine's site. Confirmed editions run across 2022 through 2026. The closing date of the live window, plus any rule on repeat voting, is not printed ahead of time and must be read off the live ballot page when the round opens.

  • For The Wildlife Photographer Of The Year Peoples Choice Award

    KSBY, a television station in California, invites readers to pick a favorite among finalist wildlife photographs for the People's Choice branch of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year program. The form sits on ksby.com, and the confirmed 2024 window shut on January 31, 2024, after runs in 2023 and 2024.

  • Holiday Home Decorating Contest 2025

    The City of Chino invites residents to submit photos of their decorated homes for the Holiday Home Decorating Contest 2025, then lets the public choose the winner on the City's own website. Photo entries close December 16, 2025, public voting runs December 17 through December 22, 2025, and the winning home is announced December 23, 2025. Confirmed editions ran in 2023 and 2025, and the winning entry may appear in City publications and social media.

  • Holiday of Lights Decorating Contest

    The City of Grover Beach invites residents and businesses to enter its Holiday of Lights Decorating Contest, a December program judged through public participation. Nominations for the 2025 cycle went to [email protected] by Tuesday, Dec. 9, and the city published an interactive map of nominated displays. Confirmed editions run in 2022, 2023 and 2025, and a city archive notice points to 2014. Exact window dates and any per-supporter rule confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

  • Howling Heroes LAFD Calendar Contest

    The Howling Heroes LAFD Calendar Contest lets dog owners enter a photo and lets the public vote their favorite pups into a Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation calendar. The Foundation publishes the ballot on GoGo Photo Contest, and confirmed editions run from 2021 through 2025. Support is counted in donations, with each $1.00 given to a dog valued at a single vote, and the 2025 cycle closed with a KTLA results broadcast in July.

  • Joe Orthodontics High School Athlete of the Week

    Each week, this ballot honors a standout high school athlete from California's High Desert. Joe Orthodontics puts its name on the program, and Crowdsignal's poll.fm service carries the voting. A round ends at 11:59 p.m. Wednesday night, with unlimited votes permitted and nominations due by Sunday morning after that week's games. Confirmed editions cover 2023 plus 2026, and the live address is poll.fm/17096706.

  • LA Weekly Best of Los Angeles

    Annual LA Weekly readers-choice awards covering Los Angeles businesses, places, and people, with public online voting across 200+ categories.

  • Marin IJ Readers' Choice

    Marin IJ Readers' Choice is the Marin Independent Journal's countywide awards, published as a Readers' Choice special section at marinijreaderschoice.com. The confirmed record describes the publication format; the vote mechanism and category list aren't detailed. It's a separate program from Pacific Sun's and Marin Magazine's county ballots.

  • Marin Magazine's Best of the County

    Marin Magazine's Best of the County is a direct reader vote across eight categories at marinmagazine.com/best-of-the-county/, requiring a 10-vote minimum per business, with winners announced late July. It runs alongside, not instead of, Pacific Sun's and the Marin IJ's separate Marin County ballots.

  • Martinez Patch Readers' Choice

    The Martinez Patch Readers' Choice is a community-voted best-of ballot for Martinez, California, run by Patch Media Corporation on the Patch platform. Editions are confirmed for 2024 and 2026, and the live voting window falls in September 2026, with the ballot page dated September 26, 2026. The page currently announces Roxx on Main as an East Bay Times Reader's Choice winner. Patch has not printed the category roster for this market's ballot; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

  • Miss California International People's Choice Award

    Unlike Best of Orange County's countywide business ballot, Miss California International's People's Choice Award is a pageant fan vote, run at misscaliforniainternational.com/vote/ under the title "People's Choice Award 2026 VOTE NOW." Two editions are confirmed, 2022 and 2026, with the current cycle's voting confirmed for November 2026 and the ballot page naming a Friday, November 6, 2026 event in Sacramento. Day-level open and close dates go unpublished on that page, and so does any breakdown of categories or a limit on repeat voting; confirm all three on the live ballot each cycle.

  • Monterey Bay Stars Awards

    What's Up Monterey? runs the Monterey Bay Stars Awards, a public-vote best-of ballot honoring businesses, individuals and organizations around Monterey Bay, California. Four editions have run: 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. Details for the 2026 cycle were promised at the end of summer. The ballot lives on whatsupmonterey.com itself rather than any contest platform, and the exact window dates, category lineup and per-supporter rules stay unpublished ahead of each cycle.

  • Napavalley Patch Readers' Choice

    Patch Media Corporation runs the Napavalley Patch Readers' Choice for Napa Valley, California, on the Napa Valley, CA Patch site. The 2026 cycle opens nominations first, then voting begins July 23 and runs through August 17. Confirmed editions sit in 2024 and 2026. The live ballot names the current category, Best Bargain Shopping, and carries the rules Patch prints that cycle.

  • Norbays Music Awards

    The Norbays Music Awards are Pacific Sun's public-vote celebration of North Bay bands, staged in Santa Rosa, California. Unlike the publisher's broad Best of Marin reader's poll, this ballot is built entirely around music. The 2016 cycle closed voting on Monday, Aug. 8 at 12pm, with winners named in the Aug. 10 issue and an awards show at Julliard Park on Aug. 14. Edition years on file run 2016, 2024, 2025 and 2026.

  • Now In L A Weeklys Ultimate Burger Bracket

    LA Weekly runs the Ultimate Burger Bracket, a public-vote food award for burger spots across California. The 2026 voting window runs through September, with 2024, 2025 and 2026 among its confirmed editions and a first run traced to 2015. Voting happens on laweekly.com itself. Category structure, per-supporter limits and round dates go unannounced until each cycle, so supporters and nominated businesses should check the live page before building any push.

  • Parenting OC Readers' Choice Awards

    Parenting OC's 22-year-running Orange County readers' poll, run at parentingoc.com/readers-choice-awards/, leans toward family, education, and household-service categories rather than the broad restaurant-and-retail sweep the county's other major program, the Orange County Register's Best of Orange County, runs separately through its own Facebook page each year.

  • Puparazzi Photo Calendar Contest

    Guide Dogs for the Blind, a California service-dog organization headquartered in San Rafael, runs the Puparazzi Photo Calendar Contest on the GoGo Photo Contest platform. Editions ran in 2023 and 2025, and the 2023 voting window opened Tuesday, April 11 at 9:00 AM Pacific Time and closed Monday, April 17 at 9:00 PM Pacific Time. Each vote cost $1, with repeat voting uncapped.

  • Readers Picks Arts Culture

    East Bay Express invites its readers across Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda to pick favorites in an arts and culture ballot run on the newspaper's own site. The voting window has fallen in May, and editions are confirmed in 2021 and 2026. Exact opening and closing days, the category roster and voting rules belong on the live ballot itself before any push is planned.

  • Readers Poll Arts Culture 1

    This page covers one slice of the East Bay Express Readers' Poll, the arts and culture winners ballot published by the East Bay Express newspaper for Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda in California. Where the regional best-of programs run by other California publishers sit on shared contest platforms, this ballot is published directly on eastbayexpress.com and reports results by named local winner. The confirmed edition years are 2019 and 2026, and the 2026 voting window falls in July.

  • Readers Poll Arts Culture 2 1

    The Readers Poll Arts Culture 2 1 ballot is the arts and culture slice of the East Bay Express Readers Poll, run by the East Bay Express newspaper across Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda in California. Confirmed editions ran in 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026; the most recent window closed on September 30. Voting happens on the paper's own site, and the ballot costs nothing to take part in.

  • Readers Poll Food Drink 2 1

    The Readers Poll Food Drink 2 1 is a public-vote readers poll run by East Bay Express, the East Bay newspaper whose masthead serves Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda in California. Voting falls in July. Confirmed editions ran in 2018 and 2026, and the ballot is hosted by the newspaper itself rather than on any outside voting service. The paper has not printed day-level open and close dates or any per-supporter voting rule for the current cycle, so those details need to be checked on the live ballot. This page collects what is confirmed, how a supporter takes part, and how this poll sits beside other California best-of ballots.

  • Readers Poll Goods Services 1

    East Bay Express runs the Readers Poll Goods Services 1 ballot as part of its Readers' Poll coverage for Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda. Confirmed editions sit in 2019 and 2026, and voting is documented in July. The ballot is published on eastbayexpress.com itself, at a results page for the goods and services slate. The paper prints no day-level schedule for the newest cycle; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

  • Readers Poll Goods Services 2 1

    The East Bay Express, a California newspaper serving Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda, publishes a readers' choice ballot asking locals to name their favorite businesses across goods and services categories. The current ballot sits on the paper's own website, and the confirmed voting window runs from September 24 through September 30, 2026. Confirmed editions reach back to 2021, with runs in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 as well. The page prints past winners by category and accepts an open vote from anyone who visits.

  • Readers Poll People Places 2 1

    East Bay Express, an Alameda County newspaper, runs the Readers Poll People Places 2 1 ballot on its own site for readers across Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda. The live 2026 voting window runs September 24 through September 30, 2026. Confirmed editions sit in 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026, and the paper prints no limit on repeat submissions or eligibility terms on the ballot page.

  • Readers Poll Restaurants Bars 2 1 3

    The East Bay Express runs a readers poll covering restaurants and bars across Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda in California, publishing the outcome as a Readers' Poll Winners roundup on its own website. Confirmed editions ran in 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026 on an annual rhythm, and the voting window falls in July. The printed roundup names winners such as The Trappist for Best Bar and Everett & Jones for Best Barbecue.

  • Record Searchlight's Midseason Boys Basketball Player of the Year

    A midseason honor for California high school boys basketball, organized by the Record Searchlight and decided by readers on a Crowdsignal ballot reached through poll.fm. Nominees are listed by position and school, and the audience picks the winner. The program ran in 2022 and 2026, its two confirmed years, and the window lands in January, midseason. The 2026 ballot has closed. Exact window dates and any repeat-voting rule go unpublished.

  • Sacramento Favorites

    The Sacramento Bee's public nominate-and-vote business ballot across 282 categories, now in its third year, with 2025 turnout topping 275,000 votes and 4,700-plus nominated businesses.

  • Sprudgie Awards

    Sprudge Media's Sprudgie Awards, a global reader nomination and vote for coffee businesses across 13 categories, run at sprudge.com/vote with voting closing each January, and a 17th annual edition confirmed for 2025, unusual for a California-based outlet's award reaching entrants worldwide.

  • The Animal Pad 2025 Calendar Contest

    The Animal Pad 2025 Calendar Contest is an annual dog photo fundraiser organized by The Animal Pad of La Mesa, California and hosted on GoGo Photo Contest. Confirmed editions span 2023 through 2025, the edition feeding the 2025 calendar collected votes during October 2024, and proceeds from fees and calendar sales benefit the organization itself.

  • The Best Restaurants in San Diego 2026

    San Diego Magazine asks readers to vote for the best restaurants in San Diego, California, and pairs the results with picks from food critic Troy Johnson. The 2026 cycle runs a nomination round from January 5 to February 1 and a final voting round from February 23 to March 22. Restaurant ballots are confirmed for 2023 through 2026, and the magazine's winners pages reach back to 2011. Voting happens on the magazine's own website, with a single vote allowed in each category per person.

  • The Californian Preseason Player of the Year Poll

    This high school football ballot belongs to The Californian, with the vote itself on Crowdsignal's poll.fm domain. Where the weekly per-game formats reward a single performance, this one asks a preseason question about who will define the season, and its 2025 edition ran in August and has closed. Confirmed editions include 2022 and 2025, and the closed ballot at poll.fm still shows the final tally.

  • The Californian's Preseason Player of the Year Poll

    The Californian newspaper invites its high school football readers to pick a preseason Player of the Year through a fan vote on Crowdsignal. Ballots are on file for 2022 and 2025, and the 2025 edition ran during August. That ballot now shows a closed notice, with its leading option credited with 20,143 votes, a 52 percent share. Window dates, repeat-vote rules and eligibility wording were never printed by the publisher.

  • The Herald News Girls Tennis Player of the Year

    Run by The Herald-News, this girls high school tennis award lets California readers crown a Player of the Year through a Crowdsignal ballot at poll.fm. Editions on file ran in 2022, 2025 and 2026, each with voting in June. The newspaper prints no opening or closing day for the poll, so supporters should watch the live ballot itself.

  • The Lookout List

    The Lookout List is the readers' choice ballot run by Lookout Santa Cruz for Santa Cruz, California. Unlike the regional best-of programs it sits beside, it lives on lookout.co, the publisher's own web address, rather than a national contest platform. The 2026 cycle opened with write-in nominations in August and September, and final voting runs from September 21 through October 18, with Winners and Runners-Up announced beginning November 9.

  • The Record Preseason Football Player of the Year Poll

    The Record Preseason Football Player of the Year Poll lets California fans choose the top high school football player before Week 1. The Record, the newspaper behind recordnet.com, runs the fan vote at poll.fm, a Crowdsignal address. Edition years confirmed are 2023 and 2025, the 2026 vote ends at 11:59 p.m. on Sept. 18, and The Record's stated rule allows repeat voting without restriction.

  • The Record Preseason Girls Soccer Player of the Year Poll

    The Record, a California newspaper, runs a preseason Player of the Year ballot for girls soccer, carried by Crowdsignal through poll.fm. Two editions stand confirmed, 2023 and 2025, and the 2025-26 ballot closed after its December window. The organizer prints no open or close dates, no nominee rules and no per-supporter limit alongside its standing details; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. This page gathers what is known about the program, how a supporter casts a vote, and how it sits beside the publisher's other high school polls.

  • The Record Preseason Player of the Year Poll for Boys Basketball

    Before each boys basketball season, The Record, a California newspaper publishing at recordnet.com, hands its readers a preseason Player of the Year ballot hosted by Crowdsignal on poll.fm. Seasons are on the books for 2023 and 2025, and the 2025-26 vote closed at 11:59 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 23. The newspaper's coverage urged readers to vote now and vote often. No opening date for the next preseason ballot has been printed.

  • The Record Searchlight Baseball Player of the Year

    Each spring the Record Searchlight asks its California readers to name a player of the year for high school baseball in a public poll the paper runs through poll.fm, Crowdsignal's balloting form. The vote ran in 2022, then again in 2025 and 2026. The 2026 ballot carried a June window and closed on Friday, June 19, with each person limited to one vote per hour.

  • The Record Searchlight Preseason Baseball Player of the Year

    The Record Searchlight asks California readers to pick its Preseason Baseball Player of the Year in a fan ballot on Crowdsignal. Runs are confirmed for 2022 and 2026. In the 2026 cycle the ballot stayed open until Friday, June 19 under a limit of one vote per hour. The exact opening day of each new cycle is not printed in advance, so supporters should confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

  • The Record's Baseball Player of the Year Poll

    A fan ballot for California high school baseball, run by The Record, the newspaper behind recordnet.com, with the voting carried on Crowdsignal through poll.fm. Ballots are on file for 2023 and 2026. The live 2026 ballot accepts a vote each hour from every supporter and closes on Friday, June 19. No opening day for the window appears on the 2026 page, and the publisher publishes no selection criteria beside the vote itself.

  • The Record's Flag Football Player of the Year Poll

    A single year-end ballot, not a weekly honor. The Record, a California newspaper, asks readers to choose its flag football player of the year through a Crowdsignal poll hosted at poll.fm. The 2025 poll closed after an October voting window, and the closed page posts the final order of finish. The ballot prints no per-person vote limit and no account requirement.

  • The Record's Softball Player of the Year Poll

    The Record, the California newspaper behind recordnet.com, runs a softball player of the year honor for prep athletes, decided by public vote. The ballot sits on Crowdsignal at its poll.fm address, and the 2026 edition ran in April before it shut Friday, May 1, at 11:59 p.m. Editions are confirmed in 2023 and 2026, and the publisher's printed rule lets participants vote as many times as they wish.

  • The RS Midseason Defensive Player of the Year

    RS asks California high school football followers to pick a midseason defensive player on the Crowdsignal page the organizer posts for the midseason defensive honour. The confirmed edition years on file are 2022 and 2025, and the voting window sits inside August. The 2025 ballot has closed, with a defensive lineman entry from a U-Prep school leading on 4,441 votes. RS leaves the opening and closing dates, the category roster and the eligibility text unpublished alongside the ballot.

  • The RS Midseason Offensive Player of the Year

    RS runs a midseason fan vote naming the top offensive high school football player in California, carried on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Cycles on file landed in 2022 and 2025, with October the month the window has fallen in. The latest ballot has closed. The program differs from RS's weekly contests by crowning a single midseason honoree instead of a weekly honoree.

  • The RS Offensive Player of the Year

    RS organizes The Offensive Player of the Year, a fan vote naming one offensive standout in California prep football, carried on Crowdsignal's poll.fm site. Supporters pick a nominee at poll.fm/16271224, and the organizer states there are no voting restrictions on the poll. The published deadline for the 2026 cycle is 11:59 p.m., Sept. 18, timed as Week 3 games wrap up.

  • To Decide Martin Dentistry Football Athlete of the Week, CIF SJS

    Martin Dentistry, a California dental practice, runs its weekly high school football honor as a fan poll hosted by Crowdsignal at poll.fm. The ballot asks readers to pick the Martin Dentistry Football Athlete of the Week for the CIF SJS Championship coverage. The 2023 and 2025 seasons are its editions on file, and the live poll closes at noon Thursday, Sept. 3. Nominations arrive by email, and the organizer states there are no voting restrictions.

  • Ventura Community's Choice Awards

    Ventura County's entry in the USA TODAY Network's Your Choice Awards franchise, run by Gannett at yourchoiceawards.com/ventura/ through a nomination round followed by a public vote, with 2025 winners already confirmed announced, part of a network that runs equivalent ballots across dozens of other U.S. markets.

  • Victorville Chevrolet High School Athlete of the Week

    In Victorville, California, a weekly ballot naming the top high school athlete of each week runs under sponsorship from Victorville Chevrolet, with the Victorville Daily Press publishing the series. Ballots appear on Crowdsignal at poll.fm through the school year. Nominations close Sunday morning after that week's games and the poll closes Tuesday night. Seasons ran in 2023, 2024 and 2025, with a 2026 cycle expected.

  • Vote for Bay Area News Group boys athlete of the week

    Bay Area News Group puts up a boys athlete of the week ballot each week for Bay Area high school sport in California. Voting sits on Crowdsignal under the poll.fm address, with confirmed seasons from 2021 through 2025 running September through May. Supporters pick a nominee on the live poll. The organizer states that email votes do not count.

  • Vote for the Tulare County high school athlete of the week

    Tulare, California's weekly prep-athlete ballot comes from the Visalia Times-Delta/Tulare Advance-Register, hosted on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Each school-year week the paper posts a fresh Tulare County slate and readers pick a winner, with the publisher inviting people to vote often. The live 2026 ballot closes at noon Friday, September 18.

  • VOTE to decide Martin Dentistry's Athlete of the Week

    Martin Dentistry runs VOTE to decide Martin Dentistry's Athlete of the Week, a high school sport ballot for communities across California, carried on Crowdsignal's poll.fm service. Confirmed edition years are 2023, 2025 and 2026, and the 2026 season puts one ballot up per week. One recent round carried a May 11-16 window now closed. Anyone can nominate an athlete from any sport, and the organizer states there are no voting restrictions.

  • VOTE to decide Martin Dentistry's Basketball Boys Athlete of the Week

    This is a sponsor-backed weekly honor rather than a statewide ranking. Martin Dentistry puts up the boys basketball athlete of the week ballot, and Crowdsignal hosts it at poll.fm. The live window runs Feb. 16 through Feb. 21, with votes due by noon on Thursday, Feb. 19. Confirmed editions go back to 2023 and the most recent listed run was 2025, so it works as a recurring winter fixture. Any supporter can vote, and the organizer states there are no restrictions on voting.

  • Vote: Who should be The Sporting News California Team of the Week

    California high school football fans decide the Team of the Week in a ballot run by The Sporting News California on Crowdsignal, the poll.fm platform. Weekly polls run September through October, each asking which school's team deserves the honor that week, and each closing at 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday. Confirmed seasons include 2023 and 2025. Exact open dates, weekly nominee lists and any per-supporter limit appear only on each live ballot.

  • Which Actor Is the Bold and the Beautiful Performer of the Month

    Which Actor Is the Bold and the Beautiful Performer of the Month is a fan poll published by Beautiful, the California magazine operation behind WMB 3D: World's Most Beautiful, with Crowdsignal handling the balloting at poll.fm. The live ballot asks which actor from the CBS soap delivered the strongest March performance. Editions ran in 2024 and again in 2025, and the publisher posts no start or finish day for the current round. This page gathers what the ballot shows, the literal voting steps, and where the poll sits among California's other fan and business ballots.

  • Who is the Herald News Girls Tennis Player of the Year

    The Herald-News lets its California readership decide a Girls Tennis Player of the Year through an open community ballot. The poll runs on Crowdsignal's poll.fm service, and three editions are on file: 2022, 2025 and 2026, each with voting during June. The ballot asks a single question and pairs every nominee with her school. The newspaper prints no open date, close date, category breakdown or per-supporter rule in advance, so readers should confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

  • Who is the Record Searchlight girls basketball player of the year

    The Record Searchlight lets its California readers choose the season's top girls basketball player in a public poll. Crowdsignal carries that ballot at poll.fm. The 2026 window ran from March 16 through March 23, 2026, closing at noon that Monday, and the page now shows Poll Closed. Confirmed editions sit in 2022 and 2026, with nominees from Enterprise, Foothill, West Valley and Redding Christian.

  • Who is the Record Searchlight's boys basketball player of the year

    The Record Searchlight asks readers in the Redding area of California to pick its boys basketball player of the year through a public fan ballot that Crowdsignal runs at poll.fm. The 2026 ballot ran from March 16 through March 23, capped at one submission per hour, with nineteen nominated players. Confirmed editions also include 2022, and 2027 is the expected year for the next edition.

  • Woofs, Hooves and Whiskers Calendar Contest

    Ventura County, California's Woofs, Hooves and Whiskers Calendar Contest turns pet photos into funding and calendar spots for the Humane Society of Ventura County, which stages the ballot on GoGo Photo Contest. Supporters back a pet photo with paid votes at a minimum of $1 per vote, and the winning photos appear in the society's 2026 calendar. The 2026 edition ran from September 1 through September 30, 2025, with entries and voting closing together at 5:00 PM Pacific on the final day.

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  • Event Details Miss California Volunteer Contestant Orientation Mandatory

    The Mandatory Contestant Orientation is a pageant-weekend preparation event run by Miss California Volunteer, the state affiliate of Miss Volunteer America, on the organization's own website. The orientation covers the schedule and requirements for pageant weekend and includes the Contestant Lottery that secures each contestant's number. The 2025 session was dated August 23, and editions appear across 2022 through 2026.

Pet & Shelter Photo Contests (14)

  • 2026 Calendar of Superstar Pets Photo Contest

    The 2026 Calendar of Superstar Pets Photo Contest is a pet photo contest that raises funds for SPCA Monterey County on the GoGo Photo Contest platform. Supporters donate to cast votes, and winning photos appear in the 2026 SPCA calendar. The 2026 edition's online voting closed on July 31, 2025, at 3:00 PM PST. Confirmed editions so far cover 2025 and 2026, and the shelter describes the contest as annual. Unlike costume or rabbit photo ballots elsewhere in California, this one is built around a published calendar product.

  • 5th Annual FRTD Dog Calendar Contest

    First Responder Therapy Dogs runs the 5th Annual FRTD Dog Calendar Contest, a dog photo fundraiser hosted on GoGo Photo Contest. The organizer mails its ballots from San Rafael, California, and every dog photo entered is eligible. The 2026 ballot closes 9/26/2026 at 4:59:59 PM Pacific Time. Confirmed editions stretch from 2020 through 2026, and the organizer states there is no cap on repeat voting for a single entry.

  • Bark for a Cure! Pet Costume Photo Contest

    Los Angeles · Scleroderma Foundation of California

    Scleroderma Foundation of California's Southern California Chapter built Bark for a Cure! Pet Costume Photo Contest as a paid-entry, paid-vote fundraiser, and GoGo Photo Contest hosts it at gogophotocontest.com/barkforacure. Five edition years are confirmed, 2021 through 2025, and recurrence data points to a 2026 return. Entry closes November 1 and voting ends November 6 at 6 p.m. Pacific, at $25 per entry and $1 per vote. Neither a category list nor a voting ceiling is printed there; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

  • Community Concern for Cats Calendar Cat Photo Contest

    The Community Concern for Cats Calendar Cat Photo Contest lets cat owners campaign for a calendar cover. Cc4c runs it on GoGo Photo Contest, with the ballot at gogophotocontest.com/cc4c. The 2027 calendar cycle runs from September 14 to October 14, 2026. Edition years already on the books are 2025 and 2026, and the live window produces the 2027 calendar. Entry costs five dollars per photo, and the top vote getter becomes the Cover Cat.

  • Community Concern for Cats Calendar Cat Photo Contest

    Walnut Creek · Community Concern for Cats

    Walnut Creek, California's Community Concern for Cats runs its Calendar Cat Photo Contest at gogophotocontest.com/cc4c, a market address hosted by GoGo Photo Contest. Confirmed editions run 2025 and 2026; the current cycle opened September 14, 2026, with entries closing 10:00 PM Pacific on Wednesday, October 14, 2026. Entering a photo costs $5, and the cat with the most votes lands on the 2027 calendar cover; everything past that stays confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

  • HSIMC's 2027 Pet Calendar Photo Contest

    This ballot is a fundraiser built around pet photographs rather than a people's choice award, run by the Humane Society for Inland Mendocino County from its Redwood Valley, California shelter. Supporters enter a pet photo with a $5 minimum and vote for favorites on GoGo Photo Contest. The 2026 window opened September 6 and closes October 18, 2026, and the top 13 entries appear in the 2027 calendar.

  • Joybound's 2026 Paw-parazzi Pet Photo Contest

    Joybound's 2026 Paw-parazzi Pet Photo Contest is a donation-based pet photo fundraiser run by Joybound People & Pets of Walnut Creek, California, hosted on GoGo Photo Contest. Round one collected votes and donations from February 16 to March 23, 2026, and round two ran March 23 through April 3. The 2026 contest has ended, and the page carries editions from 2025 and 2026.

  • Pasadena Humane 2026 Calendar Photo Contest

    Pasadena Humane, the animal welfare organization in Pasadena, California, runs the 2026 Calendar Photo Contest as a pet photo fundraiser on GoGo Photo Contest. The most recent window closed on June 30th at 11:00 PM PDT, and the contest page currently marks the contest as ended. Entries reaching five votes are guaranteed calendar or collage placement. The next cycle's dates are not yet published, so supporters should confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

  • Pasadena Humane Calendar Photo Contest

    Pasadena · Pasadena Humane

    Pasadena, California's animal shelter, Pasadena Humane, built its Calendar Photo Contest as a fundraiser and put the entry gallery on GoGo Photo Contest's site, address gogophotocontest.com/pasadenahumane2026calendar. Four editions, spanning 2023 to 2026, have run so far, and this year's calendar closed its voting June 30 at 11:00 PM PDT. The shelter ties every vote directly to its own fundraising, and entries drawing five votes or more earn a guaranteed spot in the following year's calendar. Judging categories and a per-supporter voting limit go unstated; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

  • Pet Photo Calendar Contest

    Mary S. Roberts Pet Adoption Center, based in Riverside, California, raises money for the shelter through a Pet Photo Calendar Contest, its gallery built on GoGo Photo Contest rather than the shelter's own website. The shelter's own materials call it an annual fundraiser, and this specific round is branded the 6th Annual edition, though only 2025 and 2026 are independently confirmed for this exact ballot. Voting for the current round closes September 25, 2026, at 11:59:59 PM Pacific time, after which the shelter moves toward printing the finished calendar.

  • Pet Star Photo Contest

    Greater Palm Springs Animal Allies runs the Pet Star Photo Contest, a pet photo fundraiser hosted through GoGo Photo Contest. The 2026 ballot is live at gogophotocontest.com/gpsanimalallies for supporters in Palm Springs, California. Entries and voting run from August 15 through September 30, 2026, with voting closing at 9:00 PM Pacific Time on the final day. Votes cost $1 with a five-vote minimum, and calendar orders earn free votes.

  • Pets of the Year Calendar Contest

    Woods Humane Society runs the Pets of the Year Calendar Contest from San Luis Obispo, California, with a second location in Atascadero. The contest page for 2026 is live on the organization's own website, sponsored by Mechanics Bank, with free entry for dog and cat owners from September 1 through September 20, 2026 and a contest window running to September 30, 2026. Support is measured in donations: each dollar donated counts as a vote for a pet.

  • Pets on the Prowl 2019 Calendar Contest

    Mendocino Coast Humane Society runs Pets on the Prowl as a pet photo calendar fundraiser hosted on GoGo Photo Contest from Fort Bragg, California. Ballot years run from 2015 through 2024 with 2018 missing from the sequence. The published voting span covers August 1 to August 31, and the animals whose photographs gather the most votes are featured for a month of the society's printed calendar.

  • San Diego House Rabbit Society Bunnyfest Photo Contest

    San Diego · San Diego House Rabbit Society Bunnyfest Photo Contest

    San Diego House Rabbit Society runs the Bunnyfest Photo Contest, a rabbit photo fundraiser for its San Diego, California shelter, posted at gogophotocontest.com/bunnyfest2018photocontest through GoGo Photo Contest's hosted service. Two editions are confirmed, 2018 and 2019, and the confirmed 2018 cycle notes that online voting ends September 20 at midnight PDT. Submission itself is free, and the society frames the whole contest as support for its shelter bunnies. Unlike Best of San Diego & Best Restaurants, which covers local businesses citywide, this contest runs one rabbit photo pool for one shelter. How many categories run, and how often one person may vote, is not stated; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

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