For The Worst Intersection In Ellsworth Poll: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Worst Intersection In Ellsworth Poll is and who runs it

Most of the ballots in Maine's public-vote landscape are broad best-of programs. Best of the 207 and Best of Maine sweep whole categories of businesses across the state, and the Kennebec Journal Readers' Choice ballot serves a daily-newspaper readership. The For The Worst Intersection In Ellsworth Poll does the opposite of all of them: it narrows the question to a single civic annoyance in a single city.

The organizer is WWMJ, an Ellsworth, Maine radio station whose website is i95rocks.com. In its FCC public inspection file the station prints its full name as WWMJFM / WWMJ Ellsworth Maine. The vote is published directly on i95rocks.com rather than through an outside balloting service, and the voting page sits at the address the station uses for this poll specifically.

The format is a straight public pick. The page introduces the idea in plain terms: if you travel the City's roads often enough, then you know where they are, the intersections filled with Saturday shoppers, confused tourists, and the impatient. That framing tells you the intended audience is local drivers rather than a statewide business community, and it explains why the poll reads more like morning-show conversation than a formal awards program.

Facts at a glance

The dated record for the Ellsworth intersection ballot

The poll has a longer history than its lighthearted tone suggests. Confirmed editions ran in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The 2019 page carries a publication date of April 29, 2019, credited to DJ Fred, and the voting window for that edition ran through April 30. Every confirmed edition has kept the April slot, which makes spring the month to look for the ballot on i95rocks.com.

There is a gap in the visible run between 2021 and 2024. The edition years show 2019, 2020 and 2021 in a row, then a jump to 2024, so the poll either paused or simply left no trace for 2022 and 2023. What the station did in those intervening years is not published anywhere on the ballot page.

Several facts about the current cycle are simply not printed. WWMJ does not publish day-level opening and closing dates for the April window, and the ballot carries no rules text on vote caps, daily return limits or eligibility, so those details are things to confirm on the live ballot each cycle. No prize, no round structure and no platform promotion schedule are attached to this market either, which fits a poll that exists as station content rather than a sponsored contest.

For a supporter, the practical takeaway is simple: treat April as the season, the station's own page as the only authoritative source of dates, and expect the ballot to reappear as it has in every recent year since 2024.

How a supporter votes in the Ellsworth poll today

Voting in the For The Worst Intersection In Ellsworth Poll takes one visit and one click. The page is a single poll published by WWMJ at i95rocks.com, with no nomination round, no bracket and no multi-week platform schedule attached. A supporter arrives at the ballot address, reads the short introduction about the city's most frustrating crossings, and casts a pick for the intersection they find worst.

Since the vote is published directly on i95rocks.com rather than through a dedicated contest platform, the page carries the station's usual content around the poll: site navigation, trending items and station promotions sit alongside the ballot. The vote control itself is the simple select-and-submit kind, where the action is choosing your crossing and confirming it.

What the page does not specify matters as much as what it does. Nothing printed states whether a supporter can come back and pick again, whether an account is needed, or whether votes from outside the Ellsworth area count. WWMJ has left the rule set off the ballot, so the live April page is the only place those mechanics are stated, and a supporter should read it before assuming anything about repeat voting.

The upside of this simplicity is that nothing stands between a supporter and the vote. No registration wall, no category navigation and no entry form get in the way, which is why the poll has survived as a station fixture across six confirmed editions.

How this ballot sits beside its Maine neighbours

Every sibling program on this site's Maine page answers a different question than the intersection poll does. The Mainebiz Readers' Choice polls the state's business community, the Maine Restaurant Week Diners' Choice ties its vote to a dining event, and the Maine Parade of Homes People's Choice awards builders. All of them are organized around businesses, categories and sponsors.

The Ellsworth intersection poll is organized around a grievance. WWMJ is not asking which business served you best; it is asking which stretch of pavement ruins your day. That gives it a different character from the best-of vertical it technically belongs to: there is no winner to promote, no plaque to hang, and no commercial beneficiary, just a city's drivers agreeing on their least favorite junction.

It is also the smallest in scope. Where the statewide ballots draw from the whole state, this one draws from people who travel Ellsworth's roads, which is a much smaller and more engaged pool. That intimacy is presumably why the station keeps running it: the poll generates the kind of local argument a radio station thrives on, and it costs listeners nothing to join in.

For anyone comparing Maine ballots, the practical difference is that this poll's outcome is conversational rather than commercial, and its window is a single April month rather than a multi-round season with published platform dates.

Strengthening support for your pick in the Ellsworth poll

Because this ballot is a single public pick published by WWMJ, support for a crossing comes down to getting local drivers to the page during the April window. The most effective push is the obvious one: share the i95rocks.com ballot link with people who actually drive that intersection, whether that is a neighborhood group, a commuter carpool or the comment section of a local post about traffic. The poll's own framing, aimed at Saturday shoppers and impatient locals, tells you who your audience is.

WWMJ has published no statement on outside help, vote software or organized voting pushes for this poll, and the ballot page carries no rules text at all. The station's silence leaves the question open: nothing on the page endorses automated voting, and nothing forbids it either, so anyone considering support beyond asking friends should read the live ballot and judge the station's tolerance for themselves. Our guide to getting more votes covers outreach methods that work on public ballots of this kind, and the honest baseline for a hyper-local poll like this one is personal appeals, not volume.