For Your Favorite Funny Highway Signs (i95rocks): How Voting Works & How to Win

What the funny highway signs ballot is and who runs it

For Your Favorite Funny Highway Signs is a lighthearted feature from WWMJ, the Maine radio station behind the i95rocks.com brand. The premise is exactly what the title says: the Maine Department of Transportation is asking the public to vote for their favorite funny highway signs, as part of a statewide contest. WWMJ keeps the ballot in-house on i95rocks.com rather than sending supporters to any third-party balloting service, which means the page you vote on lives alongside the station's articles, morning show content and other promotions.

The vertical here is best-of, but with a twist. Most best-of ballots in Maine ask readers to choose among businesses, restaurants or services. This one asks Mainers to choose among pieces of state infrastructure that made them laugh. There are no businesses competing, no sponsors to please and no prize money described on the page. The reward for a winning sign is presumably bragging rights for the state crew that wrote it, though the station has not published any prize details.

That shape matters for anyone landing on this page. Because the subject is public signage rather than a commercial entrant, the ballot attracts casual, drive-by participation: people who saw a sign on I-95, laughed, and want to reward whoever wrote it. The table below pulls together everything fixed about this WWMJ program.

The dated record: which editions ran and when voting closes

The confirmed history of this ballot spans five editions: 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2025. Two gaps sit inside that run, in 2021 and 2024, so the feature is recurring but not unbroken. The most recent confirmed edition was 2025, which makes 2026 the next plausible year if WWMJ keeps the pattern going. Nothing on the station's side has been published announcing a 2026 round, so treat any future date as unconfirmed until the ballot page itself comes back to life.

The one hard date in the current cycle is the close. The page states that voting lasts until April 30th, which places the live window in April and gives supporters a clear deadline. What the page does not state is the opening date, and that gap is worth naming plainly: WWMJ has not printed the exact start of the voting window, any per-supporter voting limit, or eligibility wording for the funny signs ballot; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

For planning purposes, the April 30th close is the fact to work around. A supporter who finds the ballot mid-April has a bounded period to read the entries and log a pick. A supporter who arrives in May is almost certainly looking at a dormant page from a finished cycle, since the confirmed editions all cluster around a spring window and the station has never described a second round within a year.

How a supporter votes on the i95rocks ballot today

The mechanic could hardly be simpler, and that simplicity is the point of a feature built around highway humor. Voting starts at the i95rocks.com ballot address, where a supporter reads through the funny highway sign entries and picks the Green Light to indicate that they love it. That phrasing comes straight from the station's own description of the interaction, and it tells you the ballot is a pick-your-favorite format rather than a ranked or multi-category form.

Because the ballot lives on WWMJ's own site, there is no third-party platform between the supporter and the vote. No separate balloting service, no platform account, no round structure published anywhere on the page. The station has also not printed any rules about how often a person may pick the Green Light, whether a login is required, or what happens to the tallies after the April 30th close. Those are all live-page questions rather than settled facts.

The practical sequence for a first-time supporter is short. Find the ballot at the i95rocks.com address, scroll the sign entries at leisure since the humor rewards a full read, commit to a favorite, pick the Green Light, and be done before the stated close. If the page ever adds a step, such as an email prompt or a confirmation screen, it will show up on the ballot itself, so read what is in front of you rather than assuming last cycle's shape still holds.

How this ballot sits beside Maine's other reader votes

Maine has a busy best-of scene, and this ballot is the odd one out in good company. The heavyweights are the Best of the 207 program and Best of Maine, both of which run broad multi-category ballots across the whole state. The Kennebec Journal Readers' Choice ballot does the same for the capital region's newspaper audience, and Mainebiz Readers' Choice aims the format at the business community.

Two siblings sit even closer to niche territory. The Maine Parade of Homes People's Choice ballot asks the public to pick a favorite among show homes, and the Maine Restaurant Week Diners' Choice ballot does the same for restaurant week menus. Each of those has a commercial stake: builders and restaurants benefit from the exposure.

The funny highway signs ballot has no commercial stake at all, and that is what makes it different from every sibling above. Nobody's livelihood rides on the Green Light count. The subject is state infrastructure, the tone is pure comedy, and the organizer is a radio station entertaining its listeners rather than a publisher selling recognition. For a supporter, that means lower stakes, easier sharing, and a ballot you can enjoy without worrying you are tipping a business contest.

Building real support for a sign on this ballot

Because the mechanic is a single public pick on WWMJ's own site, support for a favorite sign comes down to getting the i95rocks.com link in front of people who will laugh at the same thing you do. Maine road humor travels well: share the ballot with coworkers, post it in Maine-focused groups, and let the sign's own wording do the persuading. The station has published no rules about outside help for this feature, so the honest advice is to keep promotion organic and personal rather than automated, and to read the live page for any limit the station posts before the April 30th close. For a broader look at tactics that work on public ballots generally, see our votes guide, and for the service side, award votes.