Best In The View Community Choice Awards: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Best In The View Community Choice Awards is and who runs it

The Best In The View Community Choice Awards is a community choice ballot for the Crestview area of Florida. So Socialites, the organizer, publishes the vote on its own website instead of a third-party polling service, and the ballot address is https://www.sosocialites.com/best-in-the-view. The page title reads Best In View Voting, and the masthead carries the So Socialites name, so a supporter is never in doubt about who stands behind the program.

As a best-of program, it puts local businesses and individuals forward as the best of the view in their field, and the community decides the outcomes. The ballot page addresses voters, nominees, businesses and individuals directly and asks every participant to uphold the integrity of the program, which means the rules bind the people cheering as much as the people listed.

The groupings printed at the top of the ballot page are Food & Drinks; Beauty, Health, Wellness; Shopping & Services; Events & Entertainment; Community Arts & Education; and Special Recognition. The page does not label that lineup exhaustive, so treat it as the groupings printed for the 2026 cycle rather than a guaranteed complete roster of every field on the form.

Because So Socialites controls the ballot, the rules and the results on the same domain, a supporter completes the whole participation without leaving the organizer's site, and any change to the program appears where the voting happens.

The dated record for the Best In The View ballot

Three editions of the Best In The View Community Choice Awards are confirmed: 2024, 2025 and 2026, all run by So Socialites on the same ballot address. The program is annual in shape, and the organizer has not printed a 2027 schedule, so the next cycle's dates are a matter for the live page.

The 2026 window is the ballot's dated fact. Voting opened on June 2, 2026 and closes June 24, 2026 at 11:59 P.M. CT, a window of several weeks in early summer. For a Crestview-area nominee, that close date is the deadline every outreach plan has to beat, and it appears on the ballot page itself, not on a separate schedule.

What the ballot page leaves off is just as practical. So Socialites has not printed a nomination or entry date for the cycle, a cap on how many ballots one person may cast, a rule about returning another day or a list of who qualifies; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. A business that assumes an entry period before voting, or assumes a supporter can vote daily, is assuming something the organizer has not stated.

The practical reading for a nominee is to anchor the calendar to the June 24 close and treat everything before it as unverifiable until the form says otherwise. The confirmed run of 2024, 2025 and 2026 shows the program comes back, but the shape of each cycle, including when entrants can join, is decided fresh on the ballot page each time.

How a supporter votes on the So Socialites ballot today

Supporting a nominee takes a plain public vote cast on So Socialites' own domain. A supporter opens https://www.sosocialites.com/best-in-the-view, reviews the Rules & Regulations the page asks every participant to read before voting, browses the groupings from Food & Drinks through Special Recognition, and casts a ballot for the nominee of their choice. Nothing on the page suggests a purchase, a nomination step or a membership stands between a supporter and the submit action.

So Socialites does not state an account requirement on the ballot page, so the sensible plan is the simplest path: open the ballot, pick the field, submit. If the 2026 form asks for an email or a name, that request is the cycle's own and appears at the point of voting.

No per-supporter cap appears on the ballot page, and neither does a rule about returning another day, so whether a supporter can come back the following day and cast another ballot is decided by the live form itself. Anyone hoping to help a nominee more than once should simply try the return visit and let the form's behavior answer the question for that cycle.

Because the rules and the vote share the organizer's domain, the integrity clause a supporter agrees to is the same document a nominee is bound by. Reading it before voting, as the page instructs, is the step that keeps a supporter's effort from being wasted on a ballot that breaks the program's own terms.

How this ballot sits beside Florida's other best-of programs

The Best In The View Community Choice Awards shares Florida's best-of calendar with six sibling programs: the Best of Florida Awards, the Best of Miami Readers' Poll, Best of Orlando, Best of Tallahassee, Best of the Bay and Best in Destin. Each of those six answers to a different publisher and covers a different market, so support earned here counts for none of the others.

What separates this program is its host. So Socialites runs the vote on its own domain, so the rules, the groupings and the ballot live in a single place, while the market is the Crestview area rather than a metro field like Miami or Orlando or a statewide field like the Best of Florida Awards.

For a business deciding where to campaign, the choice is really about audience. A Crestview-area customer base votes here; a statewide or big-city customer base belongs on the sibling ballots instead. The June close gives this ballot a calendar position a supporter can check against each sibling's own page before planning a push.

The practical difference for supporters is friction. On So Socialites' domain a supporter meets no outside platform to learn, no separate login to manage and no publisher account to create, just the organizer's ballot page and its rules, which keeps the path from a customer's yes to a counted vote as short as the form allows.

Strengthening support before the June 24 close

Winning support here means turning customers into voters before the June 24, 2026 close. The organizer's own instruction is to review the Rules & Regulations before voting, so point supporters at the ballot address and let them read the terms themselves rather than summarizing them secondhand.

So Socialites has not printed a stated position on paid vote services, and the page's integrity clause binds nominees as much as voters, which makes unverified shortcuts a risk a nominee takes on with no organizer backing. Outreach that asks real customers to vote, and asks them to confirm afterwards, costs nothing and cannot be undone by a rules change.

Our guide on getting more votes covers the mechanics of that outreach, from the ask itself to the follow-up that turns a promise into a submitted ballot.