For The Best High School Mascot In Eastern Maine Poll: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the WWMJ mascot poll is and who runs it

For The Best High School Mascot In Eastern Maine Poll is a best-of ballot run by WWMJ, a Maine radio station broadcasting under the I-95 name from i95rocks.com. The program asks one question with a school-spirit edge: which high school mascot in Eastern Maine deserves the crown? The ballot page frames the stakes in its own words, telling readers that "Bragging rights hang in the balance. Your high school mascot is counting on you."

The vote lives on the organizer's own site rather than on a third-party balloting service, and the format is a plain public vote open to whoever reaches the ballot. Around the poll, the page carries the station's usual furniture: the i-95 Morning Show, the DJ lineup with names such as Cori, Jen, Doc and Fred, weather, deals and station giveaways like Patriots tickets and a cash drawing. That mix is a practical marker that a visitor has reached the genuine WWMJ ballot rather than a copy.

The vertical is best-of, the same family as the readers-choice and people's-choice programs across Maine, but the subject here is school pride rather than a local business or venue. The fixed facts are gathered below.

The dated facts behind the Eastern Maine mascot ballot

The edition list is the anchor: confirmed runs in 2021, then 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and, most recently, 2026, one per year, which makes the mascot poll an annual fixture on the WWMJ calendar. The 2021 cycle is the best-dated of them. Its ballot page went up on February 4, 2021, and the voting window for that edition ran from February 1 through February 28, 2021, a full-month February ballot.

For the cycles after 2021, the station has not printed day-level open and close dates on the ballot itself. A supporter planning around a specific closing day therefore has no published date to plan around and should read the current ballot before committing to a schedule.

Rules are the other blank. WWMJ publishes no per-supporter cap, nothing about daily returns and no eligibility terms on the ballot page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

If the year-over-year pattern holds, the next window would fall in 2027. Whether that edition keeps the February slot the 2021 ballot used is not stated anywhere yet, so the month should be treated as history rather than a promise.

How a supporter votes in the mascot poll today

Casting a vote is a short sequence. The sequence starts when a supporter loads the ballot at i95rocks.com/vote-for-the-best-high-school-mascot-in-eastern-maine-poll/, scrolls to the mascot poll embedded in the article, selects the mascot to support and submits the choice. The poll sits directly on the WWMJ page, so no separate platform sign-in is part of the published flow, and the ballot describes no account requirement of any kind.

Because the ballot is a straightforward public vote, the practical questions are about frequency rather than access. How often a single person may vote, and whether a later-day return counts, are not stated on the page. A supporter who wants to vote again on another day should simply revisit the ballot and see whether the poll accepts the choice.

Timing matters too. The one fully dated window, February 2021, closed at month's end, so a supporter who discovers the poll mid-cycle should not assume weeks remain. Reading the ballot page for a stated closing date before organizing any push is the only dependable move, since the station has printed no closing dates for recent editions.

Where this ballot sits among Maine's best-of programs

The mascot poll is one of six Maine best-of programs covered on this site, and each answers to a different publisher. Best of the 207 and Best of Maine cover the state's businesses and people through the Down East brand. The Kennebec Journal Readers' Choice program serves central Maine through the newspaper. The Maine Parade of Homes People's Choice comes from the home-building side, the Maine Restaurant Week Diners' Choice from the dining scene, and the Mainebiz Readers' Choice from the state's business press.

Against that field, WWMJ's ballot stands apart on three points. The publisher is a radio station rather than a magazine or a paper. The subject is a high school mascot rather than a business, a restaurant or a home. And the scope is Eastern Maine rather than the whole state, which places the ballot closer to a regional school-pride contest than to a statewide readers poll.

The practical difference for a supporter comes down to the audience. A radio station's listeners, a student body and an alumni network are the natural base here, while the business-oriented programs draw from customers and clients. That shapes how support is organized and who the reminders reach.

Building support for an Eastern Maine mascot

Support in a mascot poll is built on school pride, and this ballot rewards an organized fan base more than a scattered one. The 2021 edition gave supporters a full February window, which meant a class, a student section or an alumni group could set a rhythm of reminders instead of one frantic scramble at the end.

WWMJ's ballot page carries no published statement about outside help or vote sources, so the safe reading is that ordinary promotion, sharing the ballot link and rallying the student body, is what the organizer expects from a school community. For a broader playbook that works on public votes like this one, see our votes guide, and for the service side see buy votes online.