For Your Favorite Kiss Songs Poll: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Kiss songs poll is and who runs it

The For Your Favorite Kiss Songs Poll is a listener ballot run by WWMJ, the Maine classic rock station that broadcasts as i-95 Rocks. The poll lives at the station's own web address, i95rocks.com, inside its article feed, which is a different setup from the outside balloting services many Maine reader ballots use. The ballot's question is pure fan talk: which Kiss song just gets you off.

The occasion was concrete. When WWMJ posted the ballot, the station framed it around news that Kiss, self-billed as the hottest band in the world, was coming to Bangor in 2020. A favorite-song vote is the kind of engagement a classic rock station runs when a heritage act announces a tour stop that its core audience cares about, and the i-95 Rocks brand, with its i-95 Morning Show and ticket giveaways, sits around the poll on the same page.

The vertical here is best-of style voting, but pointed at music rather than at businesses. That puts the ballot closer to a station's fan engagement content than to the reader's choice contests that dominate the Maine best-of market, and it explains why the page reads like an article with a poll attached rather than a formal ballot with rules.

The dated record for the Kiss songs ballot

Confirmed editions of the Kiss songs ballot cover 2019 and 2020. The confirmed voting window ran through November 2019, and the ballot post itself carries a publication date of November 14, 2019, credited to DJ Fred. That makes November the month the station chose for the vote, timed against the announced 2020 Bangor appearance by Kiss.

Only 2019 and 2020 stand as confirmed edition years, and WWMJ has not announced a year for a next edition of the Kiss songs poll. Whether the ballot returns in a later cycle is a question the station alone answers.

WWMJ has not printed the precise opening and closing days for any cycle of the Kiss songs ballot; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

The station also publishes no rules text on the ballot page. There is no printed vote cap, no return rule and no eligibility statement attached to the Kiss song question, and no separate promotion entry exists for this market on any balloting platform, because WWMJ runs the poll itself instead of handing it to an outside service.

How a supporter votes on the WWMJ ballot today

The mechanic is as plain as public voting gets. A supporter opens the ballot page at i95rocks.com, scrolls to the poll embedded in the article, picks the Kiss song they want to back and submits. There is no nomination round, no entry form and no purchase step between a listener and the vote, because the whole thing is a favorite-song question attached to a station post.

Because WWMJ hosts the poll itself, with no third-party balloting service in between, the supporter experience is the station's own article layout: the Kiss news, the Getty Images photo credit, the share buttons and the poll in a single page. The station's site footer carries its other engagement content, from the i-95 Morning Show to ticket giveaways, but the Kiss songs vote itself is self-contained.

What the ballot does not print is any rule about how often a supporter may submit or who may take part. A supporter who wants to push a particular song should treat the live page as the final word on those points, since the station has chosen to keep the Kiss songs ballot free of published rules text.

Where this ballot sits in the Maine best-of market

Maine has a busy reader-vote scene, and the Kiss songs poll is the odd one out in it. The state's best-of ballots are mostly business contests: Best of the 207, Best of Maine, the Kennebec Journal Readers' Choice, the Maine Parade of Homes People's Choice, Maine Restaurant Week Diners' Choice and the Mainebiz Readers' Choice. Each of those asks readers to pick businesses, homes or restaurants across categories.

The WWMJ ballot asks a different kind of question entirely. It is a single-subject fan vote about a band's catalog, run by a classic rock station for its own audience, tied to a concert announcement in Bangor. A Kiss fan and a restaurant diner may overlap as Mainers, but the two ballots recruit supporters in different places: the business contests recruit through the businesses themselves, while the Kiss poll recruits through the station's rock audience and the band's tour news.

That difference matters for anyone comparing vote mechanics across Maine ballots. The station-run poll carries no category roster at all, just the song question, while the business contests are built around category lists. The Kiss poll also lives at the organizer's own web address, where most of the state's reader ballots use dedicated balloting platforms.

Strengthening support for a Kiss song on this ballot

Support in the Kiss songs poll comes down to reach among the people WWMJ is actually asking: i-95 Rocks listeners and Kiss fans with a stake in the 2020 Bangor show. Sharing the ballot link directly, rallying fellow fans in Kiss fan groups, and asking the station's rock audience to pick a favorite song are the moves that fit this ballot's shape. Because the vote is a single question on the station's own site, a push succeeds by getting fans to the page, not by working a category list.

The organizer's stated position on outside help is simply absent: WWMJ has not published any rule covering purchased or automated support on the ballot page, so the only published authority is the live poll itself. Anyone weighing paid support for a ballot like this should read buy award votes for how such support is generally structured, and should weigh it against the risk that a station-run poll treats irregular activity however the station decides behind the scenes.