For Our Show Us Your Green: How Voting Works & How to Win

What Show Us Your Green is and who runs it

Show Us Your Green is a seasonal fan promotion run by KWWK, the Minnesota country station that broadcasts as Quick Country 96.5. The ballot is published by the broadcaster itself at quickcountry.com, on the page titled Vote for Our 'Show Us Your Green' Winner!, not on an outside balloting service. The station asked its faithful listeners to show their green, and the fans who took part did so for the chance to win a $100 Visa gift voucher.

Although the promotion is filed in the best-of vertical, it does not read like a conventional readers' choice survey. There is no long roster of local businesses to rank and no slate of community categories to work through. The station spotlights fan entries around a single theme and lets the audience decide which one wins. That places it closer to a photo-style audience award than to the multi-category ballots most Minnesota publishers run, and it changes what a supporter actually does on the page.

The ballot at a glance

Because the host is the broadcaster itself, the promotion answers to the station alone. There is no platform partner whose rules sit on top of the station's own, and the voting page is the only spot where the promotion's instructions appear.

The dated facts behind the green vote

The ballot carries a firm dated instruction: fans may cast one vote per day until the noon close on Friday, March 24. That close sits in March, and the promotion's voting phase is placed in March as well, which makes this a spring window rather than a fall one.

The page leaves the opening day of the current window, the full entry rules and any category structure unstated; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Because the promotion has a single theme and a single prize, that gap weighs less here than it would on a large survey, yet anyone planning a campaign should still judge the schedule from the live page itself.

The promotion has appeared on quickcountry.com in 2022, again in 2023, in 2024, in 2025 and once more in 2026, which is why it counts as an annual fixture of the station's calendar. The next run is expected in 2027. Each cycle is announced on the broadcaster's home page, so watching quickcountry.com directly is the surest way to learn when the next window starts, and the midday Friday, March 24 close shows the kind of deadline the station favors when it does print a date.

Nothing on the ballot suggests the prize changes between runs, but the $100 Visa gift voucher figure is attached to the cycle the page describes, and later cycles should be read on their own terms.

How a supporter votes today

Voting here takes little effort to learn. A supporter opens the ballot on quickcountry.com, looks over the green-themed entries the station has posted, backs a favorite, and returns the next calendar day to do it again. The stated rhythm is one vote per day, so the value of any single visit is modest and the value of returning daily is where the outcome is decided.

Two details of that rhythm deserve attention. The close is a midday deadline, noon on Friday, March 24, which means the last useful visit falls in the late morning of the final day rather than late at night. A supporter who assumes an end-of-day close loses the final hours of the window without noticing. Second, the daily return is the whole engine: the page does not describe batch voting, ranked choices or category-by-category ballots, so a supporter's job is one visit per day, every day, until the close.

What the form requests behind that daily return, whether an email address or a login, is not stated on the ballot itself. The practical test is simply to cast a vote and see what fields appear. Because the host is the broadcaster's home page, there is no platform account to create and no third party terms to accept before participating.

How this ballot sits beside its Minnesota neighbours

Minnesota carries a crowded field of public votes, and Show Us Your Green is unlike most of them. The sibling ballots are broad readers' choice surveys: Best of the Midwest, Minnesota's Best, the Brainerd Lakes Area edition of Best of the Best, CommunityVotes Duluth, CommunityVotes Rochester and the Best of the Best survey the Duluth News Tribune runs. Those programs ask a supporter to work through many local categories, usually across a nomination round and a voting round, and they are run by publishers or community-vote partners.

Show Us Your Green answers to a single broadcaster instead. KWWK runs it on quickcountry.com, builds it around a single theme, and attaches a concrete prize, the $100 Visa gift voucher, rather than the title-and-bragging-rights reward a category survey implies. The daily-return mechanic is stated on the page itself, which many of the larger surveys leave to their rules documents.

Effort is where the two kinds of ballot part ways for a supporter. Backing an entry here costs a minute a day; backing a business in a multi-category survey means repeated visits across a longer ballot. For an entrant, the difference is audience: this ballot reaches Quick Country 96.5's listener base, while the surveys reach each publisher's broader readership. Both kinds of ballot are legitimate Minnesota public votes; they simply reward different kinds of campaigns.

Building support in a daily-return station vote

Since this ballot permits one vote per day, the most effective honest campaign is a reminder routine. Ask your circle to bookmark the quickcountry.com voting page and return each morning until the noon close on Friday, March 24, and send the reminder yourself so nobody relies on memory. A midday deadline punishes supporters who plan an evening visit on the final day, so make the last-day timing explicit when you ask.

KWWK has not published rules about outside help for this promotion anywhere on the ballot, which means the safe assumption is that the station's general contest standards apply and that anything resembling automated voting is a poor idea on a ballot the station watches itself. Background on what outside help typically involves, and where paid support fits for award-style ballots, is in our award-votes overview.

Keep the ask personal and specific: name the entry, give the deadline, and ask for the daily return rather than a single burst of votes near the end.