The Journal News Readers' Choice for Lohud Westchester/Putnam Football Player of the Year, Presented by White Plains Hospital: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the lohud football player of the year poll is and who runs it

The Journal News Readers' Choice for Lohud Westchester/Putnam Football Player of the Year is a reader poll on the web. The Journal News and lohud.com run it for readers across the Westchester and Putnam area of New York. The program name says White Plains Hospital presents the award, and the voting runs on the Crowdsignal service at poll.fm instead of a newspaper-owned domain.

Because the poll is a reader vote, it sits among sports ballots built on public choice rather than among judged awards. The nominee list on the form is what readers choose from, and the organizer's tally of those choices is what decides the result. That distinction matters if you are comparing this program with a coaches or media award in the same region.

Quick facts about this ballot

Which editions are confirmed and when the window falls

Two editions are confirmed for this ballot, one in 2023 and one in 2025. The 2025 ballot is dated to December, and that is the latest window the poll history supports. The gap between the two editions shows the poll has run in more than one season, which is why it reads as a repeating program rather than a single event.

The window opens and closes on the poll.fm ballot itself, not on a separate newspaper calendar. Exact opening and closing days for each edition are not listed in the material behind this page, and no start or end date for a future ballot is printed. Plan around the live ballot rather than around the December pattern alone.

What the dated history does and does not show

The dated history shows that the Westchester and Putnam football vote has repeated, and the December month is the only seasonal anchor the ballot gives. Anything beyond that, such as a fixed closing hour, is not shown; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How a supporter votes on the poll today

Voting is a public web form on poll.fm. You open the football ballot, read the nominee list, choose one name, and submit. Because the vote runs on a public platform, the choice you submit is the vote the ballot counts.

The steps below describe the mechanic on the ballot as listed. They do not add rules the page does not state.

No account requirement is printed on the ballot text, and no payment step is shown in the voting path. A per-voter limit is not printed either, so do not assume one exists or does not.

How this ballot sits beside its Westchester and New York neighbours

The Lohud football award sits among several New York high school ballots that share the sports vote format. Its nearest neighbours are the lohud boys and girls basketball ballots, which serve the same Westchester and Putnam readers but run weekly in a different season.

Statewide football listings also include a New York-wide ballot and a Section 1 ballot, both of which reach beyond the lohud area. Buffalo and the Hudson Valley have their own regional ballots, so a reader elsewhere in the state will see a different nominee pool entirely.

Its distinguishing trait is its Journal News and lohud.com origin and the White Plains Hospital credit in the program name. It is a season award on a regional newspaper's poll, while the neighbouring ballots are weekly and sport-specific. Readers looking for the state picture can also browse the New York guides for every listing in the state.

Can you strengthen support for a nominee in this poll?

Strengthening support for a nominee in a public poll is mostly a matter of reaching the right readers. Family, teammates' families and local followers in the Westchester and Putnam area are the people most likely to vote, and a clear message about the ballot link does more than any tactic.

Outside help is a different question. The ballot does not print the organizer's view on it, so any help you consider should be checked against the rules The Journal News sets before it is used. Our page on getting more votes online lists approaches that fit a public tally.