Readers Choice Floyd: How Voting Works & How to Win

What Readers Choice Floyd is and who runs it

Readers Choice Floyd is a best-of voting program run by News and Tribune, the publisher whose market label sits on Jeffersonville, Indiana. The format is the familiar readers'-choice shape: local businesses are listed on a ballot, and the publisher's readers decide which of them wins each group. The vertical here is best-of in the business sense, meaning the entries are enterprises competing for customer favour rather than people, teams or creative works.

The ballot itself is hosted on Second Street, the platform that carries many publisher-run contests. For Floyd, the host address is newsandtribune.secondstreetapp.com, and the 2025 ballot lives at https://newsandtribune.secondstreetapp.com/2025-Readers-Choice-Floyd/. That address is the program's public face: it is where the categories, the entries and the vote button appear, and it is the page any supporter of a Floyd-area business will land on.

The name points at Floyd, and the market label the program carries is Jeffersonville, so the audience is the readership News and Tribune serves around that city. No county boundary or neighbouring town list is published with the program, so the safest description of who may participate is the publisher's own readership in that Indiana market.

The dated record for the Floyd ballot

The confirmed window for the current round is short and specific: the 2025 voting round of Readers Choice Floyd opened September 17, 2025 and closed September 28, 2025. That range is the dated fact every planner should build around, because it is the only schedule News and Tribune has attached to the program in published form. A campaign that starts after the close date is supporting a ballot that no longer accepts votes.

On recurrence, the program has confirmed editions in 2024 and 2025. Those years are what qualify Readers Choice Floyd as an annual program in this guide, and the next expected round follows in 2026. The publisher has not printed 2026 dates, so the arrival of the new ballot is something to watch for at the host address rather than a date to promise.

The gaps matter as much as the dates. News and Tribune has not published the list of categories, any rule on how many times a supporter may back the same entry, or eligibility terms for the Floyd ballot; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. A separate nomination or entry round before voting is likewise absent from the published material, so treat the September voting window as the only confirmed phase of the 2025 edition. Everything else on the schedule is a matter for the ballot page itself, which is where the publisher places its operational detail.

How a supporter votes in the 2025 ballot

Supporting a Floyd-area business means a straightforward public vote on a Second Street page. A supporter opens https://newsandtribune.secondstreetapp.com/2025-Readers-Choice-Floyd/, browses the categories the Floyd ballot presents, picks the business they want to back, and submits the vote. The platform accepts the choice immediately, and the ballot page shows the supporter where they are in the list as they move through it.

Nothing about the flow requires preparation beyond opening the page during the window. Whether Second Street asks for an email, a sign-in or any verification before accepting a Readers Choice Floyd vote is settled on the ballot itself at the moment of voting; the published material for this News and Tribune program does not carry that step, so the page is the authority. The same goes for repeat voting: the ballot's own terms, shown as part of the voting flow, are the only place a per-supporter rule would appear for the Floyd contest.

For a business, the practical reading is that every vote arrives through that single address during the September window. There is no alternate entry route, mail-in path or secondary platform in the program's published shape. Supporters who miss the close date on September 28 have no published way to participate in that edition, which is why the window dates deserve to reach customers early rather than at the end.

How Readers Choice Floyd sits among Indiana ballots

Readers Choice Floyd is the local, publisher-anchored end of Indiana's best-of scene. It belongs to News and Tribune and answers to a single market around Jeffersonville, which makes it narrower and more community-shaped than the statewide programs a reader will also find in this guide. The closest sibling is Best of Indiana, and the contrast is scale: a Floyd business competes against its actual neighbours rather than against entries from across the whole state.

The other neighbours are the CommunityVotes family and the county-level ballots. CommunityVotes Bloomington IN Best Of, CommunityVotes Evansville Best Of, CommunityVotes Fort Wayne Best Of and YourChoiceAwards South Bend Best Of each run their own independent ballots in their own cities, while Best of Elkhart County shows how a county-focused readers' vote works under a different publisher. None of them shares a ballot, an organizer or a window with Readers Choice Floyd.

For a business deciding where to spend promotion effort, the difference that matters is the audience: the Floyd ballot reaches the customers who already live near Jeffersonville and read News and Tribune, so a win there reflects standing in the immediate market. That local character is what separates this program from the wider Indiana entries listed above, and it is also why its short September window concentrates all of the competition into a narrow stretch.

Getting more support inside the rules

The Floyd ballot rewards early, direct outreach. The window is narrow and dated, September 17 to 28 in the 2025 round, so the businesses that collect the most support are usually the ones that told their customers the dates and the category before the round started rather than after. Share the ballot address, name the category a customer should look for, and ask again before the close date.

News and Tribune publishes no stated position on outside campaigns for this Floyd program in the pages attached to the ballot, and the ballot itself carries whatever terms govern participation. Any promotion plan should therefore assume the organizer's own terms are the ceiling: stay inside what the page permits, and treat anything the ballot bars as off limits. The tactics gathered on how to get more votes online are built around that constraint, focusing on outreach a business controls rather than on shortcuts whose standing with the organizer is unknown.