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Ann Arbor · MLive / The Ann Arbor News
The MLive / Ann Arbor News regional fan vote for the best Washtenaw County-area prep football performance of the week. Embedded via poll.fm inside a dated mlive.com article — 10 nominees chosen by editors, approximately 1 vote per device per hour, closes Thursday morning, and puts three Division 1 city schools on the same ballot as Chelsea, Dexter, and Milan.
Detroit · Detroit Free Press (Gannett / USA TODAY Network)
Free weekly fan poll at freep.com, run by the Detroit Free Press (Gannett / USA TODAY Network) on the SecondStreet platform, recognising the top Detroit-area high school athlete each sports season. One vote per hour per device, no account needed.
Flint · MLive / The Flint Journal
The MLive / Flint Journal weekly fan-vote poll for the top Genesee County prep football performance. Staff nominates 11–14 candidates, readers vote via an embedded poll.fm widget at mlive.com, and the ballot closes Thursday morning — two to three days earlier than the statewide SI poll serving the same state.
The High School on SI / SBLive statewide multi-sport fan vote for Michigan — runs year-round through basketball, hockey, soccer, and wrestling seasons at si.com/high-school/michigan. No account required, unlimited votes confirmed by the organizer, closes Sunday 11:59 p.m. PT. Separate from the fall football POTW; this is where Averie Zinn (Genesee) lands 54 points and 11 steals and still comes back as a repeat nominee the following week.
Jackson · MLive / Jackson Citizen Patriot
The MLive / Jackson Citizen Patriot regional fan vote for the best Jackson-area prep football performance of the week. Embedded on mlive.com via poll.fm — 1 vote per device per hour, closes Thursday morning, and covers a tight geographic field that includes Lumen Christi, Parma Western, Napoleon, and ten other county-area programs.
Lansing · Lansing State Journal (Gannett / USA TODAY Network)
Free weekly fan poll at lansingstatejournal.com run by the Lansing State Journal (Gannett / USA TODAY Network), honouring a top Greater Lansing and Mid-Michigan high school athlete each week of the MHSAA sports calendar. One vote per hour per device, no account required.
Across Lenawee County in Michigan, high school fans vote each summer cycle for a Girls Athlete of the Year, with the poll hosted by Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Cycles ran in 2023 and 2024, with the 2024 window sitting in July before the poll closed. Nominees come from schools in Addison, Adrian, Blissfield, Clinton, Onsted and area communities. Dates, categories and any supporter cap remain unstated on the ballot itself.
Statewide Michigan · SI / SBLive Michigan (Sports Illustrated / SBLive Sports)
SI / SBLive Michigan's summer preseason vote names a Top QB pick before MHSAA fall practice starts, one ballot in a series the organizer runs position by position rather than as a single combined preseason team. The 2025 cycle is confirmed; exact dates and any vote cap aren't published yet.
The High School on SI statewide Michigan fan-vote poll, open each fall week at si.com/high-school/michigan with no account required, no vote cap (confirmed by the organizer), and a Sunday 11:59 p.m. close — the only Michigan football poll that spans every MHSAA division from Belleville D1 to Upper Peninsula D8 on one ballot.
Statewide Michigan · High School on SI / Sports Illustrated
Annual division-by-division fan-vote poll at si.com/high-school/michigan, run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Authentic Brands Group), recognising the top Michigan prep football player in each of the eight MHSAA classifications — D1 through D8 — each December following the state playoffs.
Statewide Michigan · State Champs! Sports Network / Turnin2 Softball
Annual statewide fan-vote and panel award at statechampsnetwork.com, powered by Turnin2 Softball, recognising the top girls softball player across all MHSAA divisions in Michigan each spring season — with online voting counting 20% of the selection criteria and a live championship-week announcement.
Statewide Michigan · State Champs! Sports Network / Michigan Elite Volleyball
Annual statewide fan-vote and editorial panel award at statechampsnetwork.com, run by State Champs! Sports Network in partnership with Michigan Elite Volleyball, honouring the top girls volleyball player across all MHSAA divisions each fall — with online voting counting 20% of the weighted selection criteria and a live announcement timed to MHSAA Volleyball Finals week at Kellogg Arena, Battle Creek.
Statewide Michigan · State Champs! Sports Network
Annual statewide Michigan honor by State Champs! Sports Network recognizing the top high school hockey player in Michigan; a public online fan vote at statechampsnetwork.com is part of the selection formula, following the same 20%-weighted model State Champs! uses across its other Michigan Player of the Year awards.
Statewide Michigan · State Champs! Sports Network
Annual statewide Michigan award by State Champs! Sports Network (sponsored by Hungry Howie's) recognising the top high school football player in Michigan; a public fan vote at statechampsnetwork.com counts for 20% of the final selection score and the vote winner automatically enters the Final Four each November.
The public online vote run by the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame (MSHOF) for its annual induction class, spanning five categories — Amateur, Professional, Coach, Media, and Contributor — with voting open through mid-June. The induction ceremony follows every December at the MotorCity Casino Hotel in Detroit. Statewide, all sports, all eras — a career and legacy ballot, not a single-week or single-season poll.
Bay City · MLive / Bay City Times (Advance Local)
Weekly fan-vote poll on mlive.com for the Bay City and mid-Michigan thumb region, run by MLive / Bay City Times (Advance Local) via poll.fm. Eleven nominees per week; cap rules unconfirmed — check the active ballot. The confirmed 2024 winner, John Glenn's Lukas Gies, took 42% in an 11-player field, while Grand Rapids' sibling poll caps votes at one per hour per device.
Grand Rapids · MLive / The Grand Rapids Press (Advance Local)
Free weekly high school sports fan poll at mlive.com covering West Michigan's Grand Rapids metro — run by MLive Media Group (Advance Local). Sport-specific polls each season; one vote per device per hour, no account required.
Kalamazoo · MLive / Kalamazoo Gazette (Advance Local)
MLive's weekly fan-vote poll on mlive.com recognizing standout southwest Michigan prep football performers. Editors nominate the field — as many as 44 in a single week — and fans vote via an embedded poll.fm ballot with no account required; the poll closes Thursday morning or Friday afternoon depending on the week.
Muskegon · MLive / Muskegon Chronicle (Advance Local)
Weekly free fan-vote poll on mlive.com recognizing outstanding high school football players across the Muskegon area, run by MLive Media Group (Advance Local) with polls embedded via poll.fm. Voting closes Thursday 9 a.m. — the only Michigan regional football poll with a confirmed close time.
Statewide Michigan · SI / SBLive Michigan (Sports Illustrated / SBLive Sports)
Weekly fan vote from SI / SBLive Michigan at si.com/high-school/michigan, naming one standout Michigan prep athlete each week of the MHSAA calendar. Nominations go to [email protected]; the ballot closes Sunday 11:59 p.m. and the winner posts Monday. No account is required, and the organizer does not publish a per-day vote ceiling.
Statewide Michigan (Division 1 programs only) · SI / SBLive Michigan (Sports Illustrated / SBLive Sports)
Annual Division 1-only fan vote from SI / SBLive Michigan at si.com/high-school/michigan, naming the top player among the state's largest-enrollment MHSAA football programs after the Division 1 state final. Voting is free, no purchase is necessary, and the window closes December 14 each year.
Statewide Michigan (Division 2 programs only) · SI / SBLive Michigan (Sports Illustrated / SBLive Sports)
Annual Division 2-only fan vote from SI / SBLive Michigan at si.com/high-school/michigan, naming the top player among the state's second-largest-enrollment MHSAA football programs after the Division 2 state final. Voting is free; the window closes each December, with the exact date confirmed on the live article every cycle.
Statewide Michigan (Division 3 programs only) · SI / SBLive Michigan (Sports Illustrated / SBLive Sports)
Annual Division 3-only fan vote from SI / SBLive Michigan at si.com/high-school/michigan, naming the top player among the state's mid-enrollment MHSAA football programs after the Division 3 state final. Voting is free; the confirmed cycle runs in December, with the exact close date verified on that year's live article.
Statewide Michigan (Division 4 programs only) · SI / SBLive Michigan (Sports Illustrated / SBLive Sports)
Annual Division 4-only fan vote from SI / SBLive Michigan at si.com/high-school/michigan, naming the top player among the state's smaller-enrollment MHSAA football programs after the Division 4 state final. Voting is free, and the most recently confirmed window closed December 15, a fixed date not every sibling division shares.
Statewide Michigan (Division 7 programs only) · SI / SBLive Michigan (Sports Illustrated / SBLive Sports)
Annual Division 7-only fan vote from SI / SBLive Michigan at si.com/high-school/michigan, naming the top player among the state's second-smallest 11-player MHSAA football classification after the Division 7 state final. Voting is free; SI has not published a fixed December close date specific to this division in the confirmed record.
Statewide Michigan (Division 8 programs only) · SI / SBLive Michigan (Sports Illustrated / SBLive Sports)
Annual Division 8-only fan vote from SI / SBLive Michigan at si.com/high-school/michigan, naming the top player among the smallest enrollment band in the state's eleven-man MHSAA football ladder, one step above 8-player football. Voting is free; SI has not published a fixed December close date specific to this division in the confirmed record.
Ann Arbor, Michigan's weekly Athlete of the Week ballot lets readers pick a high school sports standout, published by MLive/The Ann Arbor News and hosted at Crowdsignal (poll.fm). Confirmed seasons run from 2021 through 2026, with voting spread across the school year from September into June. Each new poll replaces the last at the same voting address, so the live ballot always shows the current round.
Readers in Cheboygan, Michigan, pick the week's top high school athlete in the Cheboygan Daily Tribune's weekly Crowdsignal poll. Confirmed seasons run from 2022 through 2026, built from 39 weekly ballots, and the round at this page's voting link covers May 26-30 and is closed. Fresh slates post each week the paper's sports calendar is active.
Grand Rapids · WZZM13 / 13 On Your Sidelines
The WZZM13 "13 On Your Sidelines" weekly fan vote covering high school football in fall and boys basketball in winter across the Greater Grand Rapids metro. Voting opens Monday and closes Thursday at 5:30 p.m. — mid-week, mid-afternoon — a hard stop that most voters never see coming.
The Detroit Free Press runs the 2026 Detroit Community's Choice Awards, a best-of business ballot for Detroit, Michigan, hosted on Second Street at freep.gannettcontests.com. The 2026 nomination-and-voting window ran from March 26 to May 1, 2026 and is now closed. Confirmed editions span 2023 through 2026, and the organizer's published rule allows a vote once a day per category while the round is active.
The Mission Leadership Awards are run by University of Detroit Mercy, a university in Detroit, Michigan. The ballot carries the Vivere ex Missione Award and the Agere ex Missione Award and honors students, faculty and staff who embody the university's mission. Confirmed cycles ran in 2025 and 2026. Nominations for 2026 closed March 13, with forms released in January. Everything else is published on the organizer's own site.
WGRD-FM, a Grand Rapids rock radio station, runs the Best Bassist ballot tied to the Loudwire Music Awards. The 2017 voting period closed Oct. 2 at 11:59PM ET, and supporters could vote up to once per hour. Confirmed editions run across 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The ballot lives on wgrd.com, where six musicians competed for the title, presented by Hotel Indigo. Window dates for the current cycle are not printed in advance, so check the live ballot.
WKFR-FM, the hit-music station broadcasting to Kalamazoo, Michigan, asks its listeners to name Southwest Michigan's favorite burger joints in its Best Burgers vote. Confirmed editions ran in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, each appearing on the station's own wkfr.com domain. The 2022 ballot closed with the station publishing the winning spots chosen by reader votes. No date has been printed for the next round.
WKFR-FM in Kalamazoo asks its listeners to pick the best burger in southwest Michigan on a ballot the station publishes on wkfr.com itself. Confirmed editions ran in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2026. The 2021 round split September into a nomination week and a two-week voting window, then posted results on a Friday morning. A restaurant nominated here reaches a radio audience across several southwest Michigan counties at once.
Best Dressed Form is the nomination ballot Hour Detroit Magazine runs for its annual Best Dressed list in Detroit, Michigan. Confirmed editions sit in 2023, 2025 and 2026, and nominations run from September through November each cycle. The form sits on the magazine's own domain at hourdetroit.com, where readers submit names through the form itself. Exact open and close dates and any nomination limits are not printed on the page.
Guide to Michigan runs the Best of Michigan Awards 2026, a community-voted celebration of top local businesses, on its own site at guidetomichigan.com/best-of. Any supporter can nominate a business and then vote. The live ballot closes June 30, 2027 at 11:59 PM, results post online July 30, 2027, and a print annual follows in September.
YourChoiceAwards' readers-choice business awards for Monroe County, Michigan, at yourchoiceawards.com/monroecounty/. The confirmed 2026 cycle ran a Nomination Round May 1-22 and a Voting Round July 7-21, already closed as of this record. It runs on the same YourChoiceAwards platform as Detroit and Lansing's own Michigan editions.
YourChoiceAwards Northern MI's annual readers-choice program at yourchoiceawards.com/northmi, spanning more than 120 categories and recognizing 360-plus businesses across Petoskey, Traverse City, and the wider Northern Lower Peninsula, with the live site as the only confirmed source for each cycle's exact dates and category list.
WKFR-FM, a Kalamazoo radio station, invites listeners across Southwest Michigan to name the region's best pizza place in a public vote run on wkfr.com, the station's own site. The 2019 ballot carried the title Vote For The Best Pizza Place In Southwest Michigan and closed on October 27th that year. Confirmed editions ran in 2018, 2019 and 2026, and the station treats the ballot as a recurring October feature. Rules such as any per-supporter limit are absent from the ballot page.
WRCL, the Michigan radio station behind Club 93.7, runs the Best Worst Hip Hop Moments Grammy Awards as a fan ballot on its own website. The feature looks back at a Grammy Awards ceremony through a hip-hop lens, and confirmed editions sit in 2019, 2021 and 2022, with the December window the station has used for it. This page collects what is published about the vote, what the station leaves unstated between cycles, and how a supporter takes part.
The Canton People's Choice Awards are a best-of business ballot run by the Canton Chamber of Commerce in Canton, Michigan. Voting happens on the chamber's own website rather than a rented contest platform. The most recent window closed on October 23rd, and the chamber has scheduled its awards ceremony for November 13th, 2026 at the Village Theater at Cherry Hill. Confirmed editions so far cover 2025 and 2026.
Hometown Life, a Michigan publication, lets readers pick its football player of the week through a public Crowdsignal ballot at poll.fm. Seasons are confirmed for 2022 through 2026, with rounds appearing between May and November. The linked ballot has closed. Weekly dates, category details and any cap on repeat voting are left unpublished by the organizer.
CatchMark Sports runs the WMC Player of the Year in Competitive Cheer, a public vote for West Michigan Conference cheer athletes balloted through Crowdsignal at poll.fm. The 2023 and 2024 editions are confirmed, and the current voting window opened at 7 a.m. Monday, May 20 and closes at 7 a.m. Friday, May 31. The 2023-24 ballot closed with the leading nominee on 85 percent of 5,057 votes.
The Charlevoix Courier publishes a weekly fan ballot for Gaylord Herald Times readers, the Athlete of the Week, hosted on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Ballots live from September through May, each opening Monday morning and closing Friday morning. The series has confirmed editions spanning 2022 to 2026, and nominees come from Gaylord, St. Mary and Johannesburg-Lewiston.
The Charlevoix Courier runs the Gaylord Herald Times Female Athlete of the Year as a fan ballot on Crowdsignal's poll.fm site. The award honors a high school girls athlete from the Gaylord, Michigan readership area. Editions sit in 2024 and 2026, with the voting window falling across December and January. The newspaper does not print exact open and close dates ahead of each cycle, so the live ballot is the guide.
The Charlevoix Courier runs a weekly high school athlete of the week vote for northern Michigan, hosted on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Ballots in the series have run in 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025, with voting falling between September and December. This page explains who publishes the poll, how a supporter casts a vote, what the organizer has not printed, and how the ballot sits beside other Michigan athlete of the week programs.
Ann Arbor, Michigan, hosts its readers' choice business ballot at annarbor.communityvotes.com. Nominations for 2026 run May 16 through September 13. Beyond that window, no category list and no listed vote cap appear; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
CommunityVotes Grand Rapids is a nominate-then-vote business ballot running at grandrapids.communityvotes.com for Grand Rapids, Michigan. 2026 marks its fifth straight confirmed year since 2022, with the window open May 16 through September 13. Neither categories nor a vote cap show up anywhere on the site; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
CommunityVotes Lansing runs a community-nominated business ballot out of Michigan's state capital, at lansing.communityvotes.com. Nominations for 2026 are open May 16 through September 13, a third straight confirmed year following 2024 and 2025. A category breakdown and a vote-stage cap stay unpublished; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
CommunityVotes Livonia is a locally run business recognition ballot for Livonia, Michigan, at livonia.communityvotes.com, confirmed for three editions, 2022, 2024, and 2026, with nothing published for 2023 or 2025. The 2026 window is open May 16 through September 13; confirm categories and vote caps on the live ballot each cycle.
CommunityVotes has run its Saginaw, Michigan ballot for five straight years, 2022 through 2026, longer than most CommunityVotes markets in the state. It's hosted at saginaw.communityvotes.com for the Saginaw County seat. The 2026 nomination window runs May 16 through September 13. Past that window, the page names no category list and no separate vote cap; check the live ballot each cycle for either detail.
FOX 17 WXMI runs a public-vote contests feed on its own website for Michigan. The confirmed live window runs January 1 through January 31, 2026, in a nominations phase that includes the Pay It Forward 2026 Person of the Month. Editions are confirmed for 2025 and 2026. The category roster and any vote limits are not published, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
Michigan's Daily Telegram settles this preseason football award before the season starts, letting readers choose the winner by fan vote on Crowdsignal's poll.fm. The latest window opened Aug. 24 and closed at midnight Thursday, Aug. 27. Nominees represented schools in Adrian, Hudson, Clinton, Blissfield, Addison and Tecumseh. Both 2023 and 2024 ran, and no date has been announced for the next edition.
Detroit gets its Community's Choice Awards from the Detroit Free Press, whose Second Street ballot system sits at freep.gannettcontests.com. Four editions have now closed out, 2023 into 2026, with the most recent window opening March 26 and ending May 1. Neither a list of categories nor a per-supporter voting limit has surfaced anywhere public; each stays a question for whatever the live ballot happens to show next.
A Michigan 501(c)(3) honoring Detroit-area musicians across national, regional, and local tiers, run through detroitmusicawards.net with voter registration required before ballots become visible.
Detroit News's annual Readers' Choice is a business readers-choice ballot run through the third-party SecondStreet platform, confirmed active for the 2025 cycle and structurally separate from Metro Times', Hour Detroit's, and Detroit Free Press's own Detroit-area reader-vote programs, each counting its own votes independently.
The Daily News's annual readers-choice ballot for Iron Mountain and the Upper Peninsula, run online at thedailynews.cc. The confirmed 2025 edition used a year-stamped URL, rca2025, rather than a permanent voting address, meaning the current cycle's page name should be searched for fresh rather than reused from an old bookmark.
Kalamazoo, Michigan's For Kalamazoo For The Nicest Place In America is a public-vote campaign run by WRKR, the Kalamazoo classic rock station known on air as 107.7 RKR the Rocker, and carried on wrkr.com itself. The 2026 cycle's ballot page tells supporters voting closes July 7th. The campaign has confirmed editions across 2018 through 2026. This reference page covers the organizer, the ballot, the window and what WRKR has not published.
For Paradise Animal Rescue is a public-vote ballot organized by the Michigan radio station WQUS, with voting carried on the station's 1031theticket.com domain. Confirmed voting runs September 3 through September 7, and a supporter may vote once every 24 hours. The ballot carries editions in 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The beneficiary is Paradise Animal Rescue, a licensed animal rescue nonprofit in the running for part of an Independent Bank giveaway that gives $5,000 each to four nonprofits in the communities the bank serves.
WGRD-FM runs the Battle Of The Burbs vote on its own site, asking listeners to pick the best or favorite city in its listening area. The ballot page shows the contest down to the Fabulous Four, with Round 1 (Sweet 16) voting dated March 28 - 29 and Round 2 (Elite 8) voting in March. Confirmed editions ran in 2019 and then 2022 through 2025; the next round's dates are not printed ahead of time.
WGRD 97.9, a Grand Rapids radio station, runs the Battle Of The Burbs Sweet 16 ballot on its own site at wgrd.com. It is a public vote where listeners pick the best or favorite city in the station's listening area, framed as the throwdown of the suburbs. Confirmed editions ran in 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026, and the Round 1 Sweet 16 voting window the station printed was March 28 - 29. This page collects what is known about the ballot, the mechanic, and the Michigan best-of programs around it.
WKFR-FM, a Kalamazoo, Michigan radio station, invites listeners to decide which high school mascot deserves the Southwest Michigan crown. The vote runs at wkfr.com, the station's own domain, and asks a simple question about local school pride. Confirmed editions ran in 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, with the 2018 cycle pairing a September nomination round against a week of open voting.
WKFR-FM, the 103.3 hit-music station in Kalamazoo, Michigan, runs For The Best Pizza Place In West Michigan, a public-vote food ballot published at wkfr.com, the domain the station controls. Confirmed editions ran in 2018 and 2026. The 2018 round drew nearly 6,000 votes and allowed one vote per person per day, closing at 11:59 PM on Sunday, August 19th. Dates for the current cycle are not printed in advance, so supporters should read the current ballot page before building any push around it.
WTRV, the Grand Rapids station behind 100.5 The River, lets its audience crown a favorite bloody mary through this food and drink poll, published on rivergrandrapids.com. Confirmed editions ran in 2019, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026, and the 2017 voting window was printed in full, from noon on November 1 until 11:59 p.m. on November 8. Nominations come first, then supporters pick among the announced finalists.
WTRV, the West Michigan radio station behind rivergrandrapids.com, asks listeners to crown the region's favorite independent Christmas gift shop in a public vote published on the station's own domain. Confirmed editions run across 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026, which marks the ballot as a recurring holiday fixture. The live cycle's voting window runs from Wednesday September 16 at 6:00 am until Sunday October 18 at 11:59 pm. Shoppers, shop owners and their supporters vote directly on the ballot page, and the page names no categories and sets out no limit on repeat voting.
WKFR-FM, the 103.3 WKFR hit-music station in Kalamazoo, Michigan, runs a public-vote ballot asking listeners to pick their favorite coffee shop in West Michigan. The ballot lives inside the station's own pages at wkfr.com, with confirmed editions in 2018 and 2026 and a daily vote described through September 18th. Results follow on Monday morning after the close, and the vote sits beside the station's schedule and listener club rather than on any separate balloting service.
For Your Favorite High School Basketball Team is a public team vote run by WBCK, the Michigan radio station branded 95.3 The Ticket, and hosted on the station's website. The ballot asks listeners across Southwest Michigan to back a favorite high school basketball squad. Confirmed editions ran in 2019 and from 2021 through 2025, and the voting window falls in March, with the ballot text stating voting ends March 4th. The station permits one vote per person, per day.
103.3 WKFR, a Kalamazoo hit-music radio station, runs a public vote for the favorite high school marching band in Southwest Michigan. The ballot is published directly on wkfr.com, with no outside balloting service in between, which sets it apart from the newspaper and magazine readers-choice programs elsewhere in Michigan. The 2020 voting period ran from Friday, November 7th through Thursday, November 20th at 5 AM, after a nomination round.
WBCK, the radio company behind 95.3 The Ticket, invites listeners across Southwest Michigan to name their favorite personal trainer on a ballot it hosts itself. The confirmed editions ran in 2020 and 2021, both anchored to January, and the 2020 ballot closed on Thursday, Jan 16th. The poll honors National Personal Trainer Day on January 2nd.
WBCK, the Michigan radio station behind 95.3 The Ticket, invites listeners to back their favorite Southwest Michigan high school mascot on a ballot hosted on WBCK's own domain. Confirmed editions ran in 2019 and 2021, both tied to September and the return of school. The 2019 vote closed Wednesday, Sept 18th, with results announced on air. Category detail, vote limits and the next edition year were never printed.
Readers of the Gaylord Herald Times, a masthead of northern Michigan's Charlevoix Courier group, pick a Football Player of the Year for the Gaylord area through a free online ballot hosted by Crowdsignal's poll.fm service. The confirmed 2025 window fell in November and an earlier edition ran in 2022. The ballot page prints no rules text and no category list beyond the single question.
WCRZ, a Michigan radio station, runs a public ballot that sends support behind Genesee County small businesses nominated for the FedEx Small Business Grant Contest, a program carrying a $25,000 prize. The station's page urges listeners to vote and notes voting goes through April 5th. Confirmed editions ran in 2019 and then from 2022 through 2025, and the ballot sits on wcrz.com rather than a third-party platform.
GHT Male Athlete of the Year honors high school athletes from Gaylord-area schools in Michigan through a public vote run by GHT on Crowdsignal (poll.fm). The latest ballot closed in June 2026 after a 2022 edition, giving the award an annual rhythm.
Annual Grand Rapids Magazine readers-choice poll covering West Michigan, a single open ballot across roughly 100 categories with no separate nomination round, now in its 16th consecutive year as of 2025.
A Grand Rapids family votes on which local businesses, doctors and childcare providers deserve the title of best in the GRKIDS Family Choice Awards. The 2026 cycle ran a nomination round from January 29 to February 10, then opened finalist voting on February 18 and closed it on March 4. GRKIDS publishes the ballot on its own website, and winners follow in May 2026. The 2025 edition is also confirmed, so the program runs as an annual fixture for West Michigan families and the businesses they reward.
HBA of Greater Grand Rapids' Spring Parade of Homes, billed as West Michigan's largest new-home parade, most recently confirmed for May 30 through June 7, 2025. The Parade includes a People's Choice award; the exact voting mechanic isn't published on hbaglbr.com in the record checked for this guide.
Home Builders Association of Michigan runs the Southeast Michigan Parade of Homes, confirmed for June 1 through 30, 2026, and described by the statewide association as Michigan's largest home-building event. A People's Choice vote runs alongside the home tours; how that vote actually gets cast isn't spelled out anywhere on hbaofmichigan.com that this guide located.
Hometown Life, a Michigan publisher serving Detroit's suburbs, names a weekly Football Player of the Week through a free Crowdsignal ballot at poll.fm. Where MLive runs metro editions, this poll draws nominees from several suburban school communities at once. Seasons are confirmed from 2022 through 2026, with ballots dated between May and November.
Hometown Life, a Michigan publisher, runs the Prep Athlete of the Week as a public poll for high school athletes on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Ten editions are confirmed, every year from 2017 through 2026, and voting happens in a March window. The publisher says each poll stays open until Friday and welcomes repeat voting without limit. Open and close dates, the award's category list and any per-supporter limit are absent from the poll page.
Hour Detroit Magazine's annual Best of Detroit readers-choice awards, drawing over 1 million votes each June cycle across six groups, Food, Bars, Museums, Shops, Salons, and Personalities, with winners celebrated at the Best of Detroit Party at the Westin Book Cadillac, run separately from Metro Times' own Best of Detroit ballot.
Each week the Jackson Citizen Patriot posts a Crowdsignal poll naming its pick of the Jackson-area high school sports scene. Anyone can vote on the poll.fm ballot, which needs no account. Confirmed seasons run in 2019 and again from 2022 through 2026, with poll activity spanning September through June. Round deadlines and the route into the nominee list appear only on the live poll itself, since the publisher prints no schedule beside it.
The Kalamazoo HBA's Parade of Homes People's Choice ballot lives at kalamazoohomepage.com/peopleschoice and opens only during the parade's own event window. Visitors who tour the show homes cast the vote, so a campaign built around a fixed calendar date rather than the actual tour dates will find the page closed.
Lakeshore HBA runs the Parade of Homes People's Choice award in the Holland/Zeeland area of West Michigan, confirmed to open the first two weekends of June at lakeshoreparadeofhomes.com. The exact voting mechanic, cap, and category list aren't published anywhere located for this guide; the live site is the only source each cycle.
YourChoiceAwards Lansing's annual readers-choice program for Michigan's capital city and the wider Greater Lansing area, run on a Gannett platform at yourchoiceawards.com/lansing, with the 2025 cycle's winners and finalists confirmed as published and the program run separately from the local outlet City Pulse.
The Lenawee County Boys Athlete of the Year is a county-wide fan vote that runs as a single Crowdsignal poll on poll.fm. The 2023 and 2024 editions are the confirmed ones, and July held the voting window in the latest cycle. That most recent ballot has closed, and the organizer has not announced when a new round will appear.
This fan-voted award turns preseason high school girls soccer in Lenawee County, Michigan into an open online ballot. Lenawee is the organizer named on the poll, and Crowdsignal carries the vote at its poll.fm address. The program has confirmed runs in 2023 and 2025, with the 2025 round live in March before it closed. Supporters pick from a short list of nominees tied to area schools. Nothing published states when the next round opens; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
This award asks softball supporters to pick a standout high school player from the Lenawee, Michigan area before the season begins, with the ballot sitting on Crowdsignal's poll.fm service. Two cycles are on file, 2023 and 2025, and the most recent poll went live in March before closing. Nominees came from schools in Adrian, Blissfield, Clinton, Hudson, Madison, Morenci, Sand Creek and Britton Deerfield. The organizer has not announced dates for the next cycle.
The Lowell Ledger, covering Lowell, Michigan, runs Best of the Best on a Second Street ballot hosted through The Daily News's platform account at thedailynews2.secondstreetapp.com. The confirmed window runs July 25 through September 14, 2026, the program's first confirmed edition. Whether a second edition follows, and what categories or limits might eventually govern it, stays unpublished for now; the live ballot is what eventually answers each of those questions.
Macomb County government's annual business recognition program, combining a judged panel with open community nominations, honoring employers across Sterling Heights, Warren, Clinton Township, and the rest of Macomb County at a May gala.
A weekly fan vote for Michigan high school football in the Metro Detroit market runs on Crowdsignal through its poll.fm domain. Seasons are confirmed for 2023 and 2024, with ballots appearing between August and November. Supporters choose a nominee from the listed players and schools and submit their pick. Window dates, category details and any vote limits go unpublished by the organizer, so look to the current ballot each cycle.
Annual Detroit Metro Times readers-choice poll for the Detroit metro area, with a write-in nomination ballot across 100+ categories decided entirely by public reader votes.
MI Home Paper runs an annual Best of the Best readers' poll across its network of West and Southwest Michigan community papers, voting on a shared ballot portal at mihomepaper.com/best-of-the-best/. The exact list of participating papers, categories, and close date isn't detailed in the public record.
WTRC-FM, a Michigan radio station, runs Michiana's A-List 2026 as a public-vote best-of ballot hosted on Second Street. The combined nomination and voting cycle opened on September 7, 2026 and stays open through October 14, 2026. This page collects what the ballot confirms, what the station has left unstated, and the literal steps a supporter follows to cast a vote during the live window.
The MLive Flint-Area Athlete of the Week lets readers back high school athletes across all sports in the Flint area of Michigan, run by the publisher MLive on Crowdsignal. Confirmed editions fall in 2023, 2025 and 2026, and ballots have run from January into August. The current ballot at poll.fm is closed, and MLive has not posted the next ballot's opening date.
Nominations for the MLive Flint-Area Football Player of the Week close at 11:59 p.m. on September 16, and the vote stays open until 9 a.m. on Friday, September 18. MLive runs the weekly ballot on Crowdsignal (poll.fm) for high school football in the Flint, Michigan area. Repeat voting is allowed without limit under the publisher's own printed rule, and the current featured ballot for Week 8 already shows as closed.
Kalamazoo-area high school football fans in Michigan pick the MLive Media Group Prep Football Player of the Week each week of the season. Crowdsignal hosts the ballot at poll.fm, with confirmed seasons in 2021, 2022 and 2026 and weekly voting across September and October. MLive says supporters may vote as often as they wish, and each week's poll stays open until Monday at 9 a.m.
MLive's West Michigan Readers' Choice program runs on the SecondStreet voting platform at mlive.secondstreetapp.com, covering the Kent, Ottawa, and Kalamazoo county metro area under Advance Local's MLive newsroom. It's a confirmed, separate ballot from Grand Rapids Magazine's Best of GR, with exact categories and dates set on the live site each cycle.
Moore Mechanical Athlete of the Week is a public-vote high school sports ballot run by Moore Mechanical on the Crowdsignal polling service at poll.fm. Confirmed editions ran in 2023, 2025 and 2026, with ballots circulating from October through June. A recent ballot drew 12,627 votes for its leading entry. Supporters simply open the ballot and click.
A countywide baseball fan vote for Lenawee County, Michigan, the Preseason Lenawee County Baseball Player of the Year lets supporters pick a player of the year on Crowdsignal. The 2023 and 2025 runs are confirmed, each with a March voting window. The 2025 ballot has closed, and 2026 is the next expected edition. Dates, categories and any vote limit go unprinted by the organizer.
One question drives this Michigan poll, where is the nicest place in the state, and the public supplies the answer. The vote lives at wrkr.com, the website of the radio station WRKR. Seven editions have already run, from 2020 through 2026, making this an annual fixture. Ballot activity tied to the page falls in July, though the station prints no exact opening or closing dates on the poll itself.
Traverse Magazine's annual Up North readers' poll — nominate, then vote, for favorite dining, lodging, shopping, real estate, and service businesses across the Grand Traverse region.
Michigan's Support Services Honors And Awards program is run by St. Clair County Community College in Port Huron, hosted on the college's own website rather than an outside voting platform. Nominations for the 2026 winter semester remain open through Friday, March 13. The page covers who qualifies, how faculty and staff nominate, and what the college has and has not published.
Tag Ranked Choice is the ranked choice voting page run by The Collegian, the Michigan newspaper behind the Hillsdale Collegian masthead, on its own website at hillsdalecollegian.com. Its confirmed editions so far cover 2025 and 2026, and the archived coverage sits in an October window. Exact ballot dates, the category list and any per-supporter rules are not printed on the page, so readers should check the organizer's own site before acting.
Tag Selfie is the ballot selfie tag page maintained by The Collegian, the Michigan newspaper publishing at hillsdalecollegian.com. Confirmed activity spans 2025 and 2026, and the current cycle runs from September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2026. Unlike the structured readers-choice ballots run by other Michigan publishers, this page is an article archive built around the ballot selfie topic. Categories, vote limits and eligibility rules are not published on it, so supporters should read the live page each cycle before acting on any assumption.
The Cheboygan Daily Tribune lets its readers choose the area's weekly high school athlete honor. Ballots run on Crowdsignal's poll.fm service, go live Tuesday and close at 9 p.m. Thursday, with unlimited voting until the close. The ballot now shown at the voting link is the May 26-30 poll, marked Poll Closed. Confirmed seasons run 2022 through 2026, drawn from 39 published weekly ballots.
The Daily News, covering Montcalm County and Ionia County, Michigan, runs Gridiron Fan Picks on the Second Street platform at thedailynews2.secondstreetapp.com. Two editions are confirmed so far, 2025 and 2026, with the second of those two windows running August 22 through November 6. Past that window, what the ballot actually allows for categories or a vote limit is what the live page itself settles, confirmed fresh each cycle.
Michigan readers decide The Daily Telegram Athlete of the Week. The Daily Telegram, a newspaper published at lenconnect.com, posts each round of this high school sports poll on Crowdsignal, and its own announcement set the latest confirmed close at noon Friday, Sept. 4, 2026. Confirmed seasons of the series span 2021, 2022 and 2026 across 32 ballots, and a fresh ballot replaces the old one every week.
The Flint Journal Flint-Area Athlete of the Week gives Flint area, Michigan readers a weekly high school sports vote on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Its representative winter ballot covered Feb. 23 through March 8 and is closed, the publisher permits unlimited submissions, and only poll-form submissions count toward the result.
Holland, Michigan's boys basketball player of the year award is decided by a public vote presented by The Holland Sentinel, the city's own newspaper, with the ballot living on Crowdsignal's poll.fm service. Confirmed editions: 2022, 2024 and 2025, and the voting window falls in December. The page below explains who presents the award, which editions are confirmed, how a supporter casts a vote, and where precise dates and rules still need checking against the live ballot.
Readers of The Holland Sentinel, the Michigan newspaper in Holland, decide the season's top high school football player through this public vote. The 2025 ballot ran in August on Crowdsignal at poll.fm, with nominees drawn from West Ottawa and Holland high schools. Editions are confirmed in 2023 and 2025, and the paper prints no rules text alongside the ballot.
Holland, Michigan readers vote each June in The Holland Sentinel Girls Athlete of the Year, a public high school sports award run by the newspaper. The ballot sits on Crowdsignal at poll.fm/17130812, where supporters pick from girls athletes of the year across the Holland area's high schools. The Sentinel has not printed precise voting days for the latest girls athlete cycle, so readers confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
The Holland Sentinel, the daily newspaper serving Holland, Michigan, asks readers each week to name the top performer among area high school athletes. The ballot sits on Crowdsignal's poll.fm host, and confirmed seasons ran in 2024 and 2025. Each weekly poll stays open until noon Friday. Sports on recent ballots included wrestling and basketball, and nominees come from Holland-area high school programs.
Run by the Battle Creek Enquirer newspaper, this weekly high school sports ballot lives on Crowdsignal through poll.fm. Confirmed editions ran in 2017 and 2018, then 2020 through 2025 without interruption, and the current ballot is headed Week of March 3-8. Unlike the MLive football ballots elsewhere in Michigan, this one covers every high school sport and is based in Battle Creek.
The Battle Creek Enquirer runs a preseason boys basketball poll each fall, asking readers to pick the area's top player before the season begins. The vote happens on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Editions ran in 2024 and 2025 with windows in November and December, ahead of the Battle Creek, Michigan winter season. The ballot lists area high school nominees, and any visitor can select and submit without an account or a fee.
Each week of the high school sports season, the Battle Creek Enquirer posts an Athlete of the Week ballot for the Battle Creek, Michigan area, presented by Bronson Battle Creek Hospital. Confirmed seasons span 2025 and 2026, and the current ballot covers the week of May 25-30. Voting takes place on Crowdsignal at poll.fm, where the live round sits at poll.fm/17068076. Unlike the football-only player of the week polls run by MLive in nearby Michigan markets, this programme takes in every high school sport, with separate boys and girls awards during the 2026 season.
CatchMark SportsNet WMC runs a public fan ballot naming a player of the year in Michigan boys basketball, carried on a Crowdsignal page at poll.fm. Two edition years stand, 2023 and 2024, and the 2023-24 vote ran and shut within March 2024, its winner taking 61 percent of 3,950 votes cast. Opening days, closing days and any per-supporter rule sit with the organizer and belong on the live ballot each cycle.
Metro Detroit football fans pick a weekly player of the week through a free Crowdsignal ballot at poll.fm. Confirmed seasons ran in 2023 and 2024, with voting active across the August to November stretch of the high school football calendar. Each weekly round's opening and closing days are not printed in advance, so supporters confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
MLive Saginaw runs a weekly poll naming a standout from Friday night football across its Saginaw, Michigan coverage zone. Crowdsignal hosts the ballot at poll.fm, separate from the publisher's Bay City edition. Polls are confirmed for 2023, 2024 and 2025, with voting falling between September and November, and the live ballot shuts at 10 p.m. on Wednesday. The publisher prints nothing on the ballot page about categories or per-supporter limits.
This Michigan high school sports poll covers the Blue Water region. Crowdsignal's poll.fm page at poll.fm/17049225 carries the ballot. Confirmed editions ran every year from 2019 through 2026. The most recent window covered May 18 to May 23. Supporters may vote once every hour according to the organizer's published rule.
The Hillsdale Daily News invites readers in Hillsdale, Michigan to pick its Athlete of the Week: Snow Day Edition, a winter sports poll for area high school athletes carried on the Crowdsignal service at poll.fm. Editions ran in 2021, 2022 and 2026, and the 2026 reader poll stayed open through January 18, 2026. The publisher has not printed the exact opening date or the per-person voting rule, so the wording shown on the live ballot is what settles those points.
The Times Herald Prep Football Player of the Week poll is a weekly public-vote ballot run by The Times Herald, the Port Huron newspaper, during the Michigan high school football season. Voting runs each fall, with editions confirmed in 2023, 2024 and 2025. The ballot is built on Crowdsignal at its poll.fm address, and supporters may vote multiple times. Entry deadlines and weekly close times are printed on each live poll.
Michigan's statewide athlete of the week fan vote comes from SI's Michigan, with ballots carried on Crowdsignal's poll.fm pages. Seasons in 2024 and 2025 are confirmed, and voting runs from October through March. Every weekly ballot ends late Sunday night, 11:59 p.m. Pacific, and the result lands Monday. Readers and staff supply the nominees; a supporter picks one and submits.
Run by The Daily Telegram, a Michigan newspaper, this weekly Athlete of the Week poll lets readers pick the standout prep athlete of each award week on the Crowdsignal service at poll.fm. One confirmed ballot, covering the Feb. 9 to Feb. 15 week, is closed. Seasons sit at 2021, 2022 and 2026. Nominees come from the paper's coverage area, and supporters should read the live ballot's own rules before rallying votes, since every fresh poll resets its window.
WDIV-TV's annual Metro Detroit readers-choice program, run through ClickOnDetroit, where the public nominates and then votes for favorite local businesses across roughly 80 categories before results air on the station.
West Michigan's Favorite Tattoo Artist is WGRD-FM's annual fan-vote contest, run at wgrd.com. The confirmed 2018 edition took over 3,000 nominations down to a top twenty, then opened voting from noon Tuesday, September 11 through 11:59 p.m. Monday, September 17. Archived pages also show the contest live in 2026, with day-level dates unconfirmed for that year.
MLive Bay City runs a weekly high school Athlete of the Week ballot on Crowdsignal at poll.fm, asking readers who gets their vote for the standout performer of the week across Bay City, Michigan area fall sports. Confirmed years run from 2021 through 2026. The live 2026 ballot closes on Thursday, September 17, and MLive states supporters may cast unlimited repeat votes while the round is open.
MLive Bay City runs a weekly reader poll asking who gets your vote for Player of the Week, hosted on Crowdsignal through poll.fm. Six confirmed editions ran between 2020 and 2025, and across those seasons ballots were posted between August and November. The link served for voting is a single ballot page, and the ballot currently shown there is closed. The market is Bay City, Michigan, with answer options drawn from area high schools.
The Holland Sentinel asks readers in Holland, Michigan to pick its boys high school athlete of the year on a free Crowdsignal poll. The latest June window has closed, ending with a 46 percent to 40 percent finish. Confirmed editions sit in 2022, 2025 and 2026, and no exact start or finish dates appear on the ballot itself.
The Holland Sentinel runs this weekly athlete of the week ballot for Holland, Michigan, counted on Crowdsignal through poll.fm. Confirmed seasons run from 2021 through 2026, with ballots active across the school year from September into June. The most recent window cited by the newspaper closed at noon on Friday, September 4, 2026. Nominees come through the paper's sports desk, and supporters pick one name on the live ballot. Nominee lineups and each new round's opening and closing times are not fixed in advance; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
Win D2 runs a statewide fan vote in Michigan that asks readers to pick the Division 2 Player of the Year. The ballot runs on the Crowdsignal platform, with the poll itself at poll.fm, and the most recent confirmed edition closed on December 12 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Editions are confirmed for 2023, 2025 and 2026. This page explains who votes, how the poll works, what Win D2 has and has not published, and how the ballot sits beside the weekly player-of-the-week contests elsewhere in the state.
Win D3 runs a statewide high school poll asking who will win D3 Player of the Year in Michigan, hosted at poll.fm as ballot 17347970. Three editions are confirmed, 2023, 2025 and 2026, and voting falls in July and August each cycle. Unlike Michigan's weekly metro player of the week ballots, this program names a single division-wide honoree per edition. Exact window dates and nomination rules go unpublished by Win D3.
This page describes the Win D4 player of the year ballot for Michigan's Division 4 high school ranks. Win D4 organizes the vote, Crowdsignal hosts it at poll.fm, and confirmed editions run through 2026 with each voting window falling in August. The ballot page prints no rules text and no exact dates.
Favorite West Michigan High School Mascot is WKFR-FM's fan vote for high schools across the region, run directly at wkfr.com. Archived pages show the contest active across eight separate years between 2018 and 2026, with one earlier version of the page recording a Monday, September 10th, close in a past cycle. As of September 2026, wkfr.com does not publish a school roster, a category roster, or a per-voter limit anywhere; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
103.3 WKFR invites Michigan listeners to back their local high school marching bands on a public fan ballot hosted at poll.fm. Its confirmed editions ran in 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, and the 2025 cycle has printed dates: nominations from Tuesday, November 4th through Friday, November 7th, then voting through Thursday, November 20th at 5 AM. The station caps each supporter at a single vote per day, so band communities that organize a daily return carry the count.
Unlike general best-of ballots across the state, the WYCE Jammie Awards are a Michigan music honor run by Grand Rapids radio station WYCE. Public voting for its best artist and best album fields closes Feb. 1, and the 2026 edition takes place Feb. 20 at The Intersection. Voting happens on the organizer's own Local Spins ballot page.
The Zz Top Photo Contest is a public-vote ballot run by WRKR, the classic rock station behind 107.7 RKR the Rocker, on the station's own website in Michigan. Confirmed editions run across 2019 through 2026. Winners receive pairs of tickets to ZZ Top at Wings Event Center on October 30th. Window dates and category details should be confirmed on the live ballot each cycle.
WKFR-FM and sibling station WBCK (95.3 The Ticket) run the same Southwest Michigan burger vote every September. The confirmed 2021 cycle split into an eight-day nomination window and a two-week voting window, drawing nearly 3,000 votes. The current cycle's exact dates aren't confirmed anywhere on either station's site; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
Best Burgers Kalamazoo is WKFR-FM's annual burger vote, syndicated to sibling Townsquare Media station WRKR (107.7 The Rocker), covering Kalamazoo County. The 2022 edition ran the full month of September. Beyond that confirmed window, neither station spells out fixed categories or a per-fan voting limit; confirm on the live ballot each cycle for either.
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