Statesboro Herald Halloween Costume Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

Statesboro Herald runs several differently named ballots on one account

The Halloween Costume Contest is a public-vote ballot for Statesboro, Georgia, run by Statesboro Herald on the Second Street platform at statesboroherald.secondstreetapp.com. The same newspaper's account also runs Best of the Boro, a separate readers'-choice ballot with its own name and its own August 24 through August 31, 2026 window, plus a separate Discovering Bulloch Readers Choice Awards ballot that ran March 16 through April 4, 2026. All three sit on one Second Street account, and none of them is the same program as another.

Read that last pair of rows for what they actually say: Statesboro Herald has kept both figures unpublished for this costume ballot specifically, no roster naming the categories, and no rule stating how often a supporter may vote. Confirm on the live ballot each cycle instead of assuming a number that belongs to one of the newspaper's other pages.

Three Octobers on the same address

Three separate years carry dated evidence on statesboroherald.secondstreetapp.com: 2023, 2024 and 2025, each landing in the fall costume-and-photo season rather than running year-round. The 2025 edition's own voting window ran October 20 through November 4, 2025, then closed.

Nothing on the account yet marks a 2026 date for the Halloween Costume Contest specifically. Three straight years is enough of a pattern to expect the ballot to return for another fall, but the exact opening date has not been published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle before planning a push around a date that has not actually been set.

Two of the three dated pages carry their year in the address itself, 2024 and 2025; a third listing drops the year entirely, a base Halloween-Costume-Contest address with no number at the end. That base listing is simply an alternate route to the same program, not proof of a separate fourth edition. Across the three known years, confirmed activity clusters between October and November on the calendar, matching the contest's own name.

Telling this ballot apart from Best of the Boro and the rest

Statesboro Herald's Second Street account carries more than one active promotion, and Best of the Boro is the one most likely to be confused with the Halloween Costume Contest by anyone searching loosely for a Statesboro Herald vote. Best of the Boro is its own separate readers'-choice ballot, most recently open August 24 through August 31, 2026, and it is a different program with a different name, not a seasonal alias for the costume contest.

The same account also runs Discovering Bulloch Readers Choice Awards, open March 16 through April 4, 2026, plus photo-voting formats such as Hometown Heroes and a Back to School photo contest. None of those decide the Halloween Costume Contest's own winner, and a supporter aiming to back a costume entry needs the exact statesboroherald.secondstreetapp.com address for this program, not any of the others.

The listing for the Halloween Costume Contest shows its promotion type as UGCVoting/UGCVotingPhoto, a supporter-submitted photo vote. Best of the Boro and Discovering Bulloch both carry the Ballot/VotingBallot type instead, a nomination-style format rather than a photo entry, one more way to tell the three apart beyond their names alone.

Outside Statesboro Herald's own account, none of the Georgia programs compared further down trace back to this organizer at all. Best of Augusta and Best of Atlanta both belong to publishers with no tie to the Statesboro Herald account, so results on either carry no weight toward the Halloween Costume Contest.

Campaigning without a published category list or vote cap

With no category roster published, nobody outside Statesboro Herald can say ahead of time which bucket a costume entry falls into; the ballot form itself makes that call once the submission is live. With no vote cap published either, any number quoted to a supporter, once daily, twice, unlimited, is somebody's guess standing in for a rule the newspaper has not printed.

What holds up better is spreading real visits to statesboroherald.secondstreetapp.com across the entire October-to-November stretch instead of concentrating them in the final days, and checking whatever eligibility note the ballot itself shows once it goes live. is buying votes legal draws the line on where that kind of effort turns risky, buying votes online explains what paid help usually looks like for a supporter-submitted photo vote such as this, and award-vote campaign planning was written for exactly this kind of readers'-choice structure.