Statesboro Magazine's Fabulous: How Voting Works & How to Win

What Is Statesboro Magazine's Fabulous and Who Runs It?

Statesboro Magazine's Fabulous is the reader balloting strand of Statesboro Magazine, a publication serving the city of Statesboro in Georgia. Each cycle runs on the magazine's account at statesboromagazine.secondstreetapp.com, which sits on the Second Street balloting platform, and the cycle documented here carried the promotion name Fabulous 2025. On that platform the promotion is typed as a Ballot/NominationAndVotingBallot, a configuration that puts the nominating act and the voting act on the same form instead of splitting them into separate rounds.

The subject matter comes straight from the magazine's Fabulist tradition: recognition of the Most Fabulous People, Places, and Things in Statesboro. That framing places the ballot in the best-of family, alongside the community-favorites polls other Georgia publishers run, but with a scope that treats people as nominees in their own right rather than listing businesses alone. Participation is a public vote, with the audience supplying both the names and the backing, and the magazine handling the reveal through its own channels once the window shuts.

Which Cycles Are Confirmed and When Did Each Window Run?

Reader balloting under the Fabulist name predates the current promotion labels. In a story devoted to The Fabulist, the magazine notes that starting on December 15, 2014 it invited readers to help choose 100 of the Most Fabulous People, Places, and Things in Statesboro, and its March-April 2024 issue speaks of the annual Fabulist reveal. On the Second Street account, confirmed cycles exist for 2024 and 2025.

Each documented window kept a holiday shape. Fabulous 2025 opened on November 18, 2024 and closed on January 3, 2025. The successor promotion, listed as 2025-26 Most Fabulous, ran from November 17, 2025 through January 2, 2026, and it sits in closed status on the account as well. Openings landed in mid-November in both cases, with endings in the first days of January.

Beyond the window dates, the listing is thin. Statesboro Magazine has not published the ballot's category roster, any per-supporter vote limit or its eligibility terms; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The promotion's own blurb amounts to "Check out Fabulous 2025" and "Check it out now!", with no rules text attached to it.

How Does a Supporter Cast a Choice on the Fabulous Ballot?

The practical route is short. A supporter opens the ballot address in a browser, and since the Fabulous promotion is a web form on Second Street there is no app to install. Because the ballot is configured as a combined nomination-and-voting entry, the form serves both acts: a backer who arrives with a name in mind and a backer who wants to put a new favorite forward use the same pages. The public chooses, and Statesboro Magazine does the revealing afterwards.

Supporters who prefer the magazine's own pointer over a remembered address can watch its print and online channels while a window runs, since that is where the publisher surfaces the live link for the current promotion.

What the listing leaves unstated matters just as much to a first-time voter. Nothing in the material accompanying the ballot says whether an email address is requested before a selection registers, nor whether write-in lines sit inside every category. Those points belong to the ballot's own live pages rather than to any summary of the programme.

Timing matters at the listing level too. Both documented editions, Fabulous 2025 and 2025-26 Most Fabulous, are shown with closed status now that their end dates have passed, so the window a supporter catches is the one Statesboro Magazine has announced as open. Planning around the published closing day beats assuming the form stays up past it.

Where Does the Statesboro Ballot Sit Among Georgia's Reader Votes?

Georgia has a deep bench of best-of balloting, and the programmes recorded closest to this one are all publisher-run favorites polls: the Athens Community's Choice Awards, Best of Augusta from Augusta Magazine, Best of Atlanta from Atlanta Magazine, Best of Cobb from Cobb Life Magazine, Best of Forsyth from Forsyth County News, and Best of Middle Georgia. Each shares the same underlying shape, a local publisher inviting its audience to crown favorites, yet none carries the Fabulist heritage behind the Statesboro version.

Three things set the Statesboro ballot apart. Its scope is framed around people as much as businesses and places, echoing the Most Fabulous People, Places, and Things formula the magazine has used since its earliest Fabulist coverage. Its rhythm is a winter window that opens in mid-November and finishes in early January, rather than a spring or summer cycle. And its publisher keeps a busy year-round Second Street presence: the same account that hosted Fabulous 2025 also runs the magazine's quarterly sweepstakes promotions, a side of the calendar itemised in the questions below.

How Can Support Build Across the Holiday Window?

A ballot that opens in mid-November and closes in early January gives a campaigner an unusual calendar: momentum has to survive travel, school breaks and New Year's before the final days count. The most dependable move inside that stretch is to ask early and specifically, sending supporters straight to the live ballot address in the week the window opens rather than after the holidays dull the urgency. Pair each ask with the name or place you want backed, because a combined nomination-and-voting form rewards supporters who arrive knowing exactly what to enter.

On outside help, the honest position is that Statesboro Magazine has not printed rules for this ballot about purchased or organized support, so it pays to check the magazine's terms each cycle before committing money. General tactics that work for public reader ballots are collected in our votes guide, and comparisons of commercial options sit on our overview of where to buy votes online.