National Nurses Week at Kentucky State University: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the National Nurses Week ballot at Kentucky State University?

The State Journal is the newspaper serving Frankfort, the capital of Kentucky, and Franklin County, and in spring 2025 it placed a community promotion online titled National Nurses Week at Kentucky State University. The ballot ran inside the paper's Second Street presence, at thefrankfortstatejournal2.secondstreetapp.com, under the address National-Nurses-Week-at-Kentucky-State-University. Second Street classifies the format as a nomination-and-voting ballot, which means the promotion combines a nomination stage with a public voting stage instead of presenting a fixed slate at launch.

The title binds the ballot to a pair of things at once: the National Nurses Week observance and the Kentucky State University campus in Frankfort. Past that title, the ballot page carries only a brief invitation to check it out, so the clearest description of the programme comes from the structure Second Street assigns it and from the dates the platform logged for it.

When did the nurses week ballot run, and what did the paper publish about it?

A single edition of this promotion is confirmed, anchored to 2025. The platform logged the ballot as open on March 17, 2025 and closed on April 25, 2025, a spring window rather than the early-May stretch the national observance itself occupies. After that closing date the promotion switched to closed status on Second Street, and no later ballot under this title has been logged.

This is the first confirmed edition; whether it returns next year is not yet published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

The printed material is thin in specific ways. No category list appears anywhere in the promotion's text, so nobody can say from the ballot itself which nursing roles or departments were on offer. The paper likewise prints no voting cap, no return-frequency rule and no eligibility terms for this promotion; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How does a supporter cast a vote on this Second Street ballot?

The mechanic is straightforward once a window is open. A supporter opens the National Nurses Week address at thefrankfortstatejournal2.secondstreetapp.com while the paper's window runs, moves through the nomination-and-voting flow the platform serves, and marks selections among the nurse nominees the ballot displays. Submission happens on the page itself, and the platform handles whatever confirmation a completed ballot produces.

Timing shapes everything here. The confirmed window covered March 17 through April 25 of 2025, and a ballot outside its window accepts nothing, so a supporter arriving today finds the closed 2025 edition rather than a working form. Any attempt to rally votes therefore has to wait for the paper to open something new.

Because the promotion carries no printed frequency rule, the practical guidance for a supporter is simple: read whatever the live submission screen says at the moment of voting, since that screen outranks any assumption about how often a person may return. Supporters weighing outside help of any kind should start from the practical votes guide before spending effort on a ballot whose terms are this sparse.

What the ballot asks of a first-time visitor

Nothing beyond a browser. There is no advertised account requirement, no payment step and no download attached to the promotion; the ballot presents its flow directly at the address the paper promoted.

How does this ballot sit beside the State Journal's other Kentucky contests?

The paper's Second Street account carries a whole promotional calendar, and this nurses ballot is the campus-themed entry in it. The largest sibling on the same account is 2026 Frankfort's Faves, a nomination-and-voting ballot that ran from May 29 through August 27 of 2026, plus a rotating series of quarterly sweepstakes promotions the paper layers around its ballots. Among those draws are the 2025 Q4 $15,000 Sweepstakes and the 2026 Q1 $5,000 Sweepstakes, both entry promotions rather than public votes.

Across Kentucky, the closest comparable programmes are the wide-field community ballots: Best of Bowling Green, Best in Kentucky, Best of Lexington KY, Best Places to Work in Kentucky, the BroadwayWorld Louisville Awards and Chevy Chaser Best of Lex. Those draw their scale from whole cities or the whole commonwealth.

This ballot differs from all of them in scope and subject. It speaks to a single professional group tied to Kentucky State University and to a named national observance, which makes its audience narrower and its calendar shorter than a summer-long city favourites run. For a supporter deciding where effort pays off, the difference is the size of the field and the brevity of the window, not the act of voting itself.

How can a nominee's supporters strengthen a campaign on this ballot?

Because the format runs a nomination stage before the voting stage, organized support matters at both points: getting a candidate onto the ballot, then turning out votes once the field is set. The outreach that fits a themed professional ballot is direct and local, the campus network, the department's colleagues and the families around them, pointed at the ballot address while the window is open.

The paper publishes no stated position on paid or solicited votes for this promotion, so a campaign cannot point to a written endorsement or prohibition either way. Some campaigns on similar community ballots do weigh purchased support; the award-ballot service overview lays out what such an order involves without promising any placing.

Every practical lever here depends on a live window, and the only confirmed one closed on April 25, 2025. A campaign aimed at this title should therefore begin by watching the paper's Second Street account for the next opening rather than by organizing around a ballot that is not currently accepting anything.