Frankfort's Faves (The State Journal): How Voting Works & How to Win

Three editions, one gap year: what Frankfort's Faves has actually confirmed

The platform archive behind Frankfort's Faves confirms three editions: 2023, 2025 and 2026. No 2024 edition shows up anywhere in that archive, which means a business assuming an unbroken yearly run would be assuming a year that was never actually confirmed.

The Frankfort State Journal runs the ballot at thefrankfortstatejournal2.secondstreetapp.com, hosted on Second Street's platform rather than the newspaper's own domain. The confirmed 2026 window opened May 29 and closed August 27, 2026, structured as one combined nomination-and-voting ballot instead of two separate stages the way some readers'-choice programs work.

Treat the closed status honestly: with an already-closed window and a missing 2024 year behind it, confirm on the live ballot each cycle rather than assuming the next window opens on any fixed schedule.

A combined ballot, and a masthead worth reading carefully

Frankfort's Faves does not split nominating from voting into two separate windows. The platform's own listing shows a single ballot type covering both stages at once, which is exactly why May 29 to August 27 is the only date range attached anywhere to the 2026 edition.

The page itself carries the masthead "State-Journal," the short form The Frankfort State Journal uses across its site, including on its Contests section where Frankfort's Faves sits alongside other State-Journal promotions. That masthead detail matters for a business trying to confirm it has the right page, since the ballot's own URL carries the fuller newspaper name in its subdomain while the visible page title trims it down.

Why the gap year is worth naming out loud

A program that skips a year doesn't necessarily stop; Frankfort's Faves came back in 2025 and again in 2026 after whatever happened in 2024. That gap is exactly the reason to treat next year's timing as unknown rather than a guaranteed repeat of the May-to-August pattern, right up until thefrankfortstatejournal2.secondstreetapp.com itself posts something new.

Frankfort's own ballot, not a statewide one

Frankfort is the only city The Frankfort State Journal names for this ballot, and the page stops there: no note about a wider county, no regional footprint, nothing that stretches the program past that single city.

The State Journal's Second Street account also runs other promotions alongside Frankfort's Faves, including recurring quarterly sweepstakes with nothing to do with this ballot. Those separate promotions carry their own names and their own dates, and none of them fold into Frankfort's Faves' own rules.

The Frankfort State Journal names Frankfort and nothing past it, so treating any wider service area as officially included would be reading more into the ballot than the newspaper itself has actually printed anywhere.

Getting ready before the next window, not during a live one

With the 2026 window already closed, a Frankfort business gets more out of lining up support ahead of the next cycle than scrambling once it reopens. Genuine customers, contacted more than once across the weeks a window stays open, put real weight behind an entry, whatever exact dates the next edition ends up posting. Waiting until an announcement appears and then rushing a single ask tends to produce far less than steady, repeated outreach spread across the whole window.

Fabricated or automated activity puts an entire entry at risk, and that stands out more sharply on a program that has already gone a full calendar year without running at all. Appearing in Frankfort's Faves is one thing; The Frankfort State Journal alone decides the separate question of who wins, once its own process wraps up. is buying votes legal walks through where genuine supporter outreach stops and something riskier starts, worth a look before a business puts real money behind a fourth Frankfort's Faves cycle. Buying votes online explains how paid outreach support typically works when nominating and voting happen inside one merged step, and award-vote campaign planning was written with a single-ballot program like Frankfort's Faves in mind.