For Dave Ally As Bozemans Best Djs: How Voting Works & How to Win

Who votes and what the ballot decides

This page is about a fan-drive, not a standalone survey. KXLB, the country station serving Bozeman, Montana, uses its XL Country web home at xlcountry.com to rally listeners behind its own on-air duo, Dave & Ally, in someone else's awards programme. The appeal's title says it plainly: Vote for Dave & Ally as Bozeman's Best DJs.

The vote feeds the Bozeman Choice Awards, the annual readers' choice programme that Bozeman Magazine holds. Within that programme the duo is nominated as Bozeman's Choice for Best Local Radio DJs, a slot inside the Media & Info Category. So the audience casting these votes is the station's own: morning-show regulars, country listeners around Bozeman, and local fans who already consider the pair the city's favorite radio act and are happy to say so on a ballot.

The relationship between the two named parties is the fact most worth keeping straight. The station hosts the appeal and points its audience at it; the magazine runs the awards the vote ultimately counts toward. A supporter clicking through is doing one action with two beneficiaries, and anyone researching the ballot should know which publisher controls which half of it.

The dated facts for this ballot

Six edition years are documented for this programme: 2020, then 2021, and then 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The list contains no 2022 entry, so the ballot has run in most but not all of the years since 2020 and should be described as recurring rather than continuous. With the current cycle live, a 2027 edition would be the next expected run, though the station has not printed that date.

The one printed date on the live page is the close: voting ends on Oct. 31. Everything the current cycle omits matters just as much. The organizer prints no opening date, no nomination window, and no rules text covering whether one person may click repeatedly, and no wording on who counts as a valid participant; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

That silence shapes how a supporter should plan. A ballot with a printed end but no printed start rewards early participation over last-day scrambles, because nobody outside the station knows how long the form has been up. It also means any per-person limit, if the organizer enforces one technically, is invisible until the form itself says so. The honest summary of the dates is short: recurring programme, six documented years, one printed closing date, and no published window or rules around it.

How a supporter votes today

Voting here uses the simplest mechanics a public ballot can take. The form sits at xlcountry.com instead of on a third-party survey platform, and the page is built around a single voting button for Dave & Ally rather than a long form spanning dozens of categories. A supporter opens the page, finds the appeal for the duo, and clicks the button to cast a Best Local Radio DJs vote in the Media & Info Category of the Bozeman Choice Awards.

Two details on the page are easy to miss. First, the same page asks supporters to vote for XL Country as their favorite radio station, so a complete visit covers two clicks, not one, and the station clearly wants both. Second, because the form is hosted by the organizer itself, there is no separate platform login, no third-party account step and no platform-branded page between the supporter and the button. What the station prints is what the supporter sees.

What the page does not carry is any instruction about repeat voting, daily returns or eligibility, so the literal mechanic is one visit, one button, plus the station vote, and whatever the live form permits on a return trip. Anyone supporting the duo from outside Bozeman should know the ballot is written for the station's local audience, and no residency rule is printed to either allow or block an out-of-town click.

Where this ballot sits among Montana's best-of votes

Montana's best-of scene is crowded, and this ballot is the odd one out among its neighbours. The state's other documented programmes are full-scale readers' choice surveys run by publishers across whole markets: Bozeman's Choice from Bozeman Magazine, the very programme this vote feeds; Gallatin's Greatest from the Bozeman Daily Chronicle; and Community Votes Bozeman, part of a network that also runs Community Votes Billings. Further afield sit Best of Billings from the Billings Gazette and Best of Whitefish in the state's northwest.

What separates this one is its shape and its host. It is a single nomination, one duo in one category, promoted by a radio station on its own domain, while each neighbour is a multi-category survey with its own publisher's brand on the ballot. For a supporter, that means the Bozeman choice landscape has two layers: the big magazine and newspaper surveys, and this focused station fan-drive pointing at one of them. Someone researching Bozeman ballots will meet both layers, and this page is the reference for the narrower one.

Strengthening support for the duo before the close

Support for Dave & Ally is a listener mobilization problem, because the ballot's reach is exactly the station's audience. The moves that fit this programme are local ones: sharing the direct xlcountry.com link with people who already listen, asking once and clearly rather than spamming, and timing the ask before the printed Oct. 31 close so nobody meets a dead form. The station itself supplies the second hook, since every supporter is also invited to vote XL Country as favorite radio station, which gives locals a second reason to click through.

Because the page prints no rules about outside help or repeat votes, nothing on the ballot tells a supporter what a campaign can or cannot look like, so the live form is the only authority. For general background on how purchased vote packages work and what they cost, see our award votes page, and read the ballot's own terms before acting on anything.