KSVI, KHMT Visit Montana: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the KSVI, KHMT Visit Montana contest?

KSVI, KHMT Visit Montana is a photo ballot the organizer KSVI, KHMT hosts on Second Street. The ballot sits on the Second Street platform, at the Visit-Montana promotion page under the yourbigsky.secondstreetapp.com address. The market is Montana, and the program is listed in the state section at Montana contests.

The platform types this promotion as a photo voting promotion. The same organizer also runs sweepstakes and a photo gallery on that page, so a visitor looking at the organizer's listings will see several kinds of promotion. This guide covers only the photo voting entry.

KSVI, KHMT is the name the platform uses for the organizer, and the program details give no further description of the group behind it. The ballot title is Visit Montana, and the combined program name keeps the organizer and the title together.

When did the Visit Montana window open and close?

The only confirmed run of this promotion is the 2026 edition. The platform dates the window from July 27, 2026 through September 11, 2026, and it now shows the promotion as closed. A reader checking this ballot today is looking at a finished window, not an open one.

Recurrence is the open question. This is the first confirmed edition; whether it returns next year is not yet published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

The results date is not in the program details either, so the material leaves open when a winner is named. A reader who needs that date will have to look past this page to the organizer's own announcement, if one exists.

How does a supporter cast a vote on this ballot?

Voting is public and takes place on the Second Street page for the promotion. A supporter opens that page, looks through the photo entries, and casts a vote for the entry they want to back. The program details describe public voting on photos and name no paid step to vote.

A few rules a supporter might expect are absent from the program details. They name no per-supporter limit, so the material does not show how many times a single person may vote. They give no account or sign-in requirement, so the page does not say whether a supporter must log in first. They describe no daily return rule for the ballot.

The categories a photo can sit in are not named either. The program details contain no category list, so the groupings a supporter would choose between stay undescribed in the material. A supporter comparing entries has only the photos and their listed titles to go on.

How does this ballot sit beside Montana's other best-of votes?

Montana's best-of ballots covered on this site include Best of Whitefish, Best of Billings, Gallatin's Greatest and Bozeman's Choice. Most of those names carry a town, and the program details for this ballot name no city at all. The organizer here is KSVI, KHMT, and the page does not place the ballot in a single town.

The table below lists four promotions from the organizer's Second Street page that fall within 2026. Only the Visit Montana row is a photo vote; the others are sweepstakes that run on the same platform and do not ask the public to pick entries. Reading the Type column first saves a visitor from mistaking a sweepstakes entry page for a ballot where votes are counted.

How can supporters help a photo entry in this ballot?

Support for a photo entry in this ballot comes from people who already want it to win. The program details describe public voting on photos and say nothing about outside help, so the organizer's view of shared links, group messages or social posts is not part of this page. Anyone asked to back an entry should first check the posted rules on the Second Street listing.

For general ideas on lifting a listing, see the guide on getting more votes online. Keep the ask honest: point people to the ballot, let them pick the entry themselves, and avoid any step the organizer's wording rules out.

Timing matters more for this ballot than for an open one. The window has closed, so a supporter who wants to back an entry cannot do so on this promotion now, and any later effort belongs to a different ballot with its own dates. Anyone comparing this promotion with the Montana best-of ballots above should check each page's dates before planning a push.

A supporter who is unsure whether an entry is eligible for a ballot should put that question to the organizer, since the program details do not cover entry rules.