The Daily News GLOW Best of the Best: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is The Daily News GLOW Best of the Best and who runs it?

The Daily News GLOW Best of the Best is a public online ballot run by The Daily News of Batavia, New York. The newspaper publishes the ballot on its own website at thedailynewsonline.com, and the Best of the Best page sits inside the publisher's regular site rather than on a separate voting platform. The ballot sits in the same site navigation as the newspaper's other sections, so readers who already use the site will find it without a separate sign-up.

The market is Batavia and the wider New York publishing area that The Daily News serves. The city of Batavia is the only place the ballot names, so the local geography in this guide stops there. The ballot does not name a county, a school district or any other place as a boundary for voting.

Which GLOW editions are confirmed and when do they run?

Live ballots are confirmed for 2023 and 2026. The 2026 edition is headed The 2026 GLOW on the publisher's page, which shows that the newspaper has run the ballot in more than one year. The gap between the 2023 and 2026 editions means the program has not run as a continuous yearly series in the material used for this entry.

Dated detail for the program is thin. Neither edition carries a published start day or end day on the pages used here, so the window for each year is unknown. The timeline below separates what is confirmed from what is still open.

Whether the 2023 and 2026 ballots share a voting window is not shown, so the dates for either year are unknown; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How does a supporter vote on the GLOW ballot today?

Nothing in the material points to a multi-round format, so this guide describes a single public vote for each edition. The mechanic is a public online vote on The Daily News website. A supporter goes to the Best of the Best page, finds the GLOW ballot, selects the entry or nominee to support, and submits the vote on that page. The publisher's own site handles the entire process, so no separate voting platform is involved.

The page does not describe a sign-in step or a device rule, so a supporter should read the ballot carefully before submitting. Supporters who want general guidance on public ballots can read the guide to getting more votes online, which covers the mechanics that most public ballots share.

How does the GLOW ballot compare with other New York Best of programs?

New York has a cluster of Best of ballots, and the GLOW program is distinct because it is run by a local newspaper in Batavia rather than by a borough or regional magazine. The sibling programs on the New York hub are the Best of Brooklyn, the Best of Queens and the Best of the Bronx.

Two more sibling ballots sit at a regional scale: the Best of Hudson Valley and the Best of Westchester. The city-wide program The City's Best covers New York City as a whole.

The key difference is who runs the ballot. The GLOW vote belongs to a Batavia newspaper, while the sibling ballots are attached to other publishers and to different geographic areas, so their rules and windows should be read separately. Readers who want the Batavia ballot specifically should start from the GLOW page itself rather than from the regional listings.

How can supporters help an entry on the GLOW ballot?

The only route a supporter has on this ballot is the public online vote itself. Each supporter casts a vote on The Daily News page, so the most direct help is to bring other readers of the newspaper to the ballot and ask them to vote for the entry themselves.

Some people ask whether outside services can add votes. Services that sell votes exist for many public ballots, but the publisher's pages do not address outside help, so the question stays open. Anyone considering that route should read the award votes page and check the publisher's own terms first, since the newspaper sets the rules for its GLOW vote.

Supporters who want to see the wider New York picture can start at the New York contest hub, which lists the Best of ballots that run across the state and in New York City.