Now For Your Favorite Mom And Me Photo: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Mom and Me photo vote is and who runs it

Now For Your Favorite Mom And Me Photo is a reader photo vote run by KWWK, a country radio station serving Minnesota, and hosted on the station's own web property, quickcountry.com. It is not a third-party balloting product: the ballot lives at a quickcountry.com address, framed by the station's own news, lifestyle and sports sections, which is typical of how local radio publishers run audience contests.

The format is personal rather than commercial. KWWK asks its audience to submit photos of themselves with their mothers, then posts the strongest entries as finalists for a public vote. In the station's own words on the ballot page: "We asked you to share your favorite photos of you and your mom and, as usual, you didn't disappoint! We've got a dozen photos vying to win Winstock 2017". That sentence carries the two details that define the contest: a dozen finalist photos, and a Winstock prize, the festival associated with the station's market.

The vertical is best-of style audience voting, but the subject is a single photo face-off rather than a directory of local businesses. One ballot, one question, one winner. That simplicity is the program's signature: a supporter lands on the page, sees the mom-and-me photo finalists, and votes. Everything a reader needs sits on one quickcountry.com page, which also means every rule that matters, from the deadline to the vote frequency, is a matter of what that one page prints in the current cycle.

The dated history of the KWWK Mom and Me photo ballot

The confirmed edition years for this program are 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. Seven editions across nine calendar years make this a recurring May feature on quickcountry.com, not a one-time promotion. Two of those nine years, 2019 and 2023, carry no confirmed edition, so the history shows a recurring contest with gaps rather than an unbroken annual streak.

The voting month is May. The ballot text carries one firm dated fact for the live cycle: "The photo that gets the most votes between now and Thursday, May 18 at 4 PM will win." That sentence fixes the closing deadline at 4 PM on Thursday, May 18 and frames the whole window as the run-up to it. An opening date for the current cycle is not printed on the ballot, and KWWK has not published the full voting and nomination window anywhere on the page, so the exact opening day should be confirmed on the live ballot each cycle.

Two further facts are absent from the published page. First, the ballot carries no list of entry categories, which fits a single-topic photo vote but leaves the current cycle's structure unstated. Second, the page begins a per-supporter voting rule without finishing it in the visible text, so neither a complete vote-frequency rule nor an eligibility statement is published. The prize wording on the page names Winstock 2017, which dates that particular prize description to an earlier cycle and says nothing certain about later years.

How a supporter votes in the Mom and Me photo round today

Voting here takes little effort. A supporter opens the ballot page at quickcountry.com, the address KWWK uses for this contest, and the mom-and-me photo finalists are right there on the page. There is no nomination round to work through at voting time and no outside platform to reach; the station hosts the whole vote on its own site. The supporter picks a favorite photo and casts a vote for it.

The page's own description of the stakes is short: the photo with the most votes when the window closes wins, and the closing moment is Thursday, May 18 at 4 PM. Because the field is a dozen photos, a supporter can reasonably look at every finalist before choosing, which is part of why this ballot converts casual readers into voters.

The one open question in the mechanic is frequency. The visible ballot text starts a sentence with "You can vote onc" and the rest of the wording is not shown, so the page clearly intends to state how often one person may vote in the KWWK Mom and Me photo round, but the complete rule is not printed in the text available. A supporter planning repeat visits should read that sentence in full on the live page. No account step, login requirement or fee is described anywhere on the ballot, and paid voting is not part of the format KWWK publishes for this contest.

How this ballot sits beside its Minnesota neighbours

Public-vote programs abound across Minnesota, and the KWWK Mom and Me photo ballot is the most personal of them. Its siblings on this site are all broader audience-choice contests: Best of the Midwest, Minnesota's Best, Best of the Best Brainerd Lakes Area, CommunityVotes Duluth, CommunityVotes Rochester, and the Best of the Best run by the Duluth News Tribune.

Those six differ from the Mom and Me ballot in scope. Each covers many businesses or places across many categories, usually with a nomination phase before voting, and each answers to its own publisher. The KWWK contest does the opposite: one emotional subject, a dozen photos, one winner, decided in a single May window on the station's own site. A reader who lands on the Mom and Me page is voting on a picture of somebody's mother, not ranking a category of local merchants.

That difference matters for anyone comparing Minnesota ballots. The big best-of programs reward sustained, category-by-category campaigning over weeks. The quickcountry.com photo vote rewards a short, concentrated push inside a single May window that ends at 4 PM on Thursday, May 18. Support strategies built for a multi-week readers-choice marathon do not transfer cleanly to a ballot this compact, and the station's own-site hosting means every rule a supporter needs sits on one page rather than across a platform.

Strengthening support for a Mom and Me finalist

Support in this ballot comes down to one number: the most votes by Thursday, May 18 at 4 PM. Because the field is only a dozen photos on KWWK's own quickcountry.com site, a finalist's fastest route to votes is direct sharing of the ballot link with people who know the family in the picture, followed by a reminder as the 4 PM closing moment approaches. The station has published no statement about outside or purchased help for this round, and no organizer policy exists to lean on either way. What a supporter can rely on is the format itself: a plain public vote, a short window, and a winner decided purely by count. Our more-votes guide and the award-votes page explain the options people consider for ballots shaped like this one.