94 contests with public online voting in Ohio — Athlete of the Week and more. Real, paced votes; honest guidance on each contest's rules.
Akron · Akron Beacon Journal / USA TODAY Network
The Akron Beacon Journal fan vote covering Summit, Stark, Portage, and Medina county high school athletes across all sports — boys and girls chosen separately each week, closed Friday at 5 p.m., with the winner announced Saturday morning. No account required.
An Ohio newspaper's season-ending honor: the Ashland Times-Gazette asks readers to choose its Male Track Athlete of the Year through a Crowdsignal poll hosted at poll.fm. Its run includes 2022 and 2025. The 2025 ballot carried a June window and now stands closed, displaying final standings for a slate built around boys high school track.
The Chillicothe Gazette invites readers in Chillicothe, Ohio to choose a preseason softball player of the year through a public vote on Crowdsignal, reached at poll.fm. Two seasons are confirmed, 2023 and 2025, with the latest ballot closing during March. The Gazette has not printed the dates or rules for the next preseason ballot, so supporters should read the live poll page before planning any push.
Cincinnati · Cincinnati Enquirer (Gannett / USA TODAY Network)
Weekly fan poll at cincinnati.com, presented by Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, covering Greater Cincinnati and Southwest Ohio prep athletes across all three OHSAA seasons. One vote per hour per device, no account required. Closes Thursday or Friday afternoon — the exact time shifts week to week, so check the widget before your final push.
Columbus · The Columbus Dispatch (Gannett / USA TODAY Network)
Weekly fan vote at dispatch.com, presented by Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, recognizing Central Ohio prep athletes across separate Boys and Girls ballots each week. One vote per device per hour, no account required. Organized by The Columbus Dispatch (Gannett / USA TODAY Network).
Dayton · Dayton Daily News / Cox Media Group
The Dayton Daily News / Cox Media Group multi-sport weekly fan vote for the best high school athletic performance across greater SW Ohio. Opens noon Monday, closes Wednesday end of day; covers football, soccer, volleyball, tennis, golf, basketball, track, and more — boys and girls in a single weekly field. One win per athlete per season.
Dayton · Dayton Daily News / Cox Media Group
Weekly SW Ohio football fan-vote from Dayton Daily News / Cox Media Group, covering the Greater Dayton metro and surrounding counties; voting opens noon Monday, closes Wednesday end of day, with the winner announced Friday morning.
The Friday Night Touchdown Player of the Year fan vote from WJW Fox 8 Cleveland, an annual, end-of-season ballot among FNTD standout nominees where the public vote counts for one-third of the final decision, voting closes in early November.
The MaxPreps statewide fan vote for Ohio's top weekly high school performance, a separate platform from the SBLive / High School on SI Ohio ballot, drawing multi-sport finalists from stats submitted directly to MaxPreps. Finalists post Tuesday, voting closes noon Monday, and the winner joins a season-long recap of every weekly Ohio champion.
Cleveland · NEO Sports Insiders (NEOSI)
Weekly NE Ohio football fan-vote run by NEO Sports Insiders (NEOSI), covering Cleveland, Akron, Canton, and surrounding counties, capped at 1 vote per person per day via EasyPolls, closing Thursday noon with the winner announced the same afternoon.
Statewide Ohio · High School on SI / SBLive Ohio (Sports Illustrated)
SI's SBLive Ohio desk runs a football-only defensive Player of the Week fan vote at si.com/high-school/ohio, separate from its offensive and combined statewide ballots, weekly from September through November. The split mirrors the offense/defense model already running on SBLive's Wisconsin franchise. Free, no account, real human votes uncapped.
The SBLive Ohio / High School on SI statewide fan vote covering every OHSAA sport — football, soccer, cross country, volleyball, golf, basketball — run year-round. Editors at [email protected] set the field from any sport, anyone can vote with no account, and the poll closes Sunday 11:59 p.m. ET.
Statewide Ohio · Gannett / Advance Local Ohio (cleveland.com, Akron Beacon Journal, Columbus Dispatch)
Annual spring-season fan-vote award recognising Ohio's top prep baseball player, run by the Gannett / Advance Local Ohio network — cleveland.com, Akron Beacon Journal, and Columbus Dispatch. Free to vote, no account required, statewide OHSAA eligibility.
The High School on SI / SBLive Ohio statewide football fan vote — open to all OHSAA divisions, closing Sunday at 11:59 PM ET with no per-voter limit. Kirtland's John Silvestro ran for 255 yards and 4 touchdowns in the December 2025 championship-week ballot that drew nominees from Division I through Division VII.
Statewide Ohio · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)
Sport-specific, season-end fan-vote recognition published by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) at si.com/high-school/ohio, covering all OHSAA-member schools statewide. Fans vote with no per-vote cap until the stated deadline; a separate post-season "top performance" poll follows each OHSAA state championship weekend.
Statewide Ohio · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) and Columbus Dispatch (Gannett)
Annual spring-season fan-vote award recognising Ohio's top prep softball player, run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) at si.com/high-school/ohio and the Columbus Dispatch (Gannett). Free to vote, no account required, all OHSAA divisions eligible across 820+ statewide member schools.
PGH Ohio Readers runs a March fan vote naming a player of the year for high school sport in Ohio. Confirmed ballots ran in 2024 and 2025 on Crowdsignal at poll.fm/15222583. The current edition is closed, and its standings with the vote count beside every nominee are shown on the ballot page. No rules text, no closing date and no nomination schedule appear there.
Statewide Ohio · SBLive Sports / High School on SI (Sports Illustrated)
Sports Illustrated's SBLive Ohio franchise runs this statewide Athlete of the Week fan vote at si.com/high-school/ohio, one of several weekly high-school polls active across Ohio alongside regional papers in Akron and Cincinnati. Unlike those two, SBLive Ohio places no ceiling on how many times a single fan can vote before the Monday winner announcement.
Statewide Ohio · Sports Illustrated / SBLive Ohio (High School on SI)
Sports Illustrated's SBLive Ohio desk runs a fan vote for the best individual performance at the Flyin' to the Hoop invitational, a January high school basketball showcase confirmed on si.com/high-school/ohio as of the 2025 event. Readers pick a favorite inside the embedded widget. No account is required to vote.
Statewide Ohio · High School on SI / SBLive Ohio (Sports Illustrated)
SI's SBLive Ohio desk runs a football-only offensive Player of the Week fan vote at si.com/high-school/ohio, separate from its combined statewide ballot, weekly from September through November. The split mirrors the offense/defense model already running on SBLive's Wisconsin franchise. Free, no account, real human votes uncapped.
Canton, Ohio (state championship site) · Sports Illustrated / SBLive Ohio (High School on SI)
Sports Illustrated's SBLive Ohio desk runs an annual December fan vote for the single best individual performance across that year's seven OHSAA football state championship games, all played the same weekend at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton. One performance represents each division, and the poll on si.com/high-school/ohio requires no account.
Statewide Ohio · Sports Illustrated / SBLive Ohio (High School on SI)
An annual fan vote from Sports Illustrated's SBLive Ohio desk, picking one standout performer from each winter's OHSAA girls basketball state tournament bracket. The format mirrors SBLive's confirmed boys' tournament vote and its own December football championship-performance poll. Vote at si.com/high-school/ohio; no account needed.
Statewide Ohio · High School on SI / SBLive Ohio (Sports Illustrated)
Free position-only fan vote run by High School on SI / SBLive Ohio at si.com/high-school/ohio, isolating catchers from the rest of the softball roster alongside the statewide Player of the Year poll and a separate pitchers-only ballot. Confirmed active for the 2025 OHSAA spring season; no account needed to vote.
Statewide Ohio · High School on SI / SBLive Ohio (Sports Illustrated)
Free position-only fan vote run by High School on SI / SBLive Ohio at si.com/high-school/ohio, isolating pitchers from the rest of the softball roster alongside the statewide Softball Player of the Year poll. Confirmed active for the 2025 OHSAA spring season. Free to enter, no account needed, no stated cap on real human votes.
Each fall week, high school football fans across the Ohio side of the tri-state area pick a standout performer on a Crowdsignal ballot. The poll carries the Mella Window & Carpet Cleaning name, launches on Sundays, and closes midweek during an August to October season. Eight seasons have run since 2019, and the current ballot is poll.fm/17442863.
97.1 The Fan's annual bracket-style pizza tournament for Columbus, pitting 64 pizzerias across four regions in single-elimination online voting rounds at pizzamadness.pizza. Entrants advance round by round rather than accumulating one open-ended vote total the way a standard readers-choice ballot works elsewhere in Ohio.
The Akron Beacon Journal's readers-choice business awards, run on the YourChoiceAwards platform (Gannett): nominations April 9-30, a top-5 finalist cutoff per category, then public voting June 16-30 across 130+ local business categories.
The Malone University Alumni Awards recognize graduates for achievement, service and loyal support of the university. The Malone University Alumni Association has presented them annually since 1962, and nominations for several different awards are due by May 31 each year. The university hosts the form on malone.edu itself, with no outside voting platform involved. One honor, introduced in 2023, is given by the administration and is closed to public nominations. Category rosters and window dates beyond the deadline are not printed ahead of each cycle.
The Ashland Times-Gazette Female Track Athlete of the Year is a free public-vote award from the Ashland Times-Gazette newspaper in Ashland, Ohio, balloted on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Two editions stand confirmed, 2022 and 2025, and the 2025 poll has closed. The voting window spans September through November. The paper prints no exact dates, category details or per-supporter limit, so the live ballot is the authority each cycle.
High school softball fans in Ashland, Ohio decide the Times-Gazette's year-end honor on a Crowdsignal form at poll.fm. The newspaper runs the vote for readers across its coverage area. Confirmed editions: 2022 and 2025, with the 2025 window falling in June. That poll has since closed. The publisher's stated rule lets supporters vote as often as they like, and the 2025 count shows how heavily a single nominee can pull ahead.
Ohio Business Magazine's statewide Best in Ohio Business Awards, spanning roughly 80 categories across Ohio's business sectors, run through online reader nomination followed by a public vote at ohiobusinessmag.com/best-in-ohio-business/, with no fixed dates or vote cap published yet for the current cycle.
Cincinnati CityBeat's annual Best of Cincinnati readers-choice awards, confirmed into at least a 29th edition, run a nomination-to-finalist vote across six category groups at vote.citybeat.com, with the 2025 results cycle already published on the official CityBeat and Best of Cincinnati sites.
Columbus Monthly's annual Best of Columbus readers-choice poll, now in at least its 44th year, runs at columbusmonthly.com across three groups, Food & Drink, Out & About, and People, during April and May, with results held back until the magazine's July print issue.
Ohio Magazine's Best of Ohio runs as a statewide write-in ballot across roughly fifty categories, with a ballot only counting once at least twenty-five blanks are filled in. There's no click-to-select list; voters type each business name by hand, and no vote cap or exact calendar is publicly confirmed.
Best of Springfield is the readers' choice program run by the Springfield News-Sun for Springfield and Clark County, Ohio. The public nominates favorites across a broad spread of local business and interest categories from June 16 to June 27, and voting on the finalists runs July 21 through August 8. Its confirmed years are 2024, 2025 and 2026; the publisher's page states that the 2026 voting round is closed. The published supporter instruction is one vote per day during the voting round.
Best Of The City is a public-vote readers' program for Cincinnati, Ohio, run by Cincinnati Magazine and published on the magazine's own domain. Confirmed editions ran in 2019, 2022, 2024 and 2025, and each cycle ties to the magazine's flagship December issue celebrating past and present winners. The exact voting window, the category slate and any cap on submissions are not stated here, so check the live ballot before planning anything around the next round.
Cincinnati Magazine runs the Bestrestaurants program, an annual best-of ballot for the Greater Cincinnati dining scene. Supporters vote on the magazine's own website, and the confirmed window sits in March, the month the publication has tied its Best Restaurants issue to since 2003. This reference page collects what is published for Ohio diners.
CBUS Top Picks is Gannett's USA Today Network readers-choice program for Columbus, Ohio, run on the YourChoiceAwards platform at dispatch.gannettcontests.com. The 2025 ballot covers 140-plus categories and operates separately from CommunityVotes Columbus, a distinct Columbus voting program with its own rules and ballot.
Chillicothe's own newspaper, the Gazette, hands its readers a girls sports poll every week of the school year, hosted by Crowdsignal through poll.fm. The poll.fm series carries seasons in 2023, 2024 and 2025, running September through May across the Ohio high school calendar. The address linked here holds the newest ballot of the run, and its own title marks that poll closed.
Backing a nominee in the Chillicothe Gazette Football Player of the Week means working inside a fast weekly cycle. The Chillicothe Gazette, the city's newspaper, runs each round on Crowdsignal at poll.fm during September and October. Seasons are confirmed for 2023 and 2024, and the dates for any round appear only on that round's own ballot page.
Run by the Chillicothe Gazette, a newspaper based in Chillicothe, Ohio, this preseason baseball player of the year ballot is a high school fan vote on Crowdsignal. Where other Ohio publishers reset their ballots every few days, this one opens once before the baseball season. Confirmed seasons are 2023 and 2025, and the 2025 window ran from March 25 through April 4, 2025 at poll.fm.
Annual CommunityVotes readers-choice business awards spanning Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana communities around Cincinnati, with open nominations, a public ballot, and category-based local business voting.
Cincinnati Magazine runs its own annual readers-choice program, separate from CityBeat's Best of Cincinnati, with winners published at cincinnatimagazine.com/readers-choice/. The category list, vote totals, and exact nomination window are not publicly confirmed on the record checked for this guide, so campaigns should verify the live cycle directly on the magazine's own site each year.
YourChoiceAwards (Gannett) readers-choice business ballot for Cincinnati, run separately from Cincinnati CommunityVotes: open nominations across 70+ categories, then a public vote on the finalist field each annual cycle.
Cincy Magazine's readers-choice awards program scoped specifically to western Cincinnati, voted at cincymagazine.com/best-of-the-west/. It runs as its own separate ballot, distinct from Cincinnati CityBeat's citywide Best of Cincinnati, with exact categories and dates confirmed only on the official site each cycle.
Cleveland Magazine's readers' companion to its own editorial Best of Cleveland list, run separately from that annual staff-picked award. Rather than a single citywide ballot, the readers' program splits into two regional votes, Best of the East and Best of the West, covering opposite sides of the region.
Cleveland Magazine's Best of the East is the eastern half of its readers' poll, a companion vote to the magazine's own editorial Best of Cleveland list. The 2026 edition is confirmed running, with readers choosing standout East Side establishments and individuals separate from the West ballot.
Cleveland Magazine's Best of the West is the western half of its readers' poll, a companion vote to the magazine's own editorial Best of Cleveland list. Readers choose the standout West Side establishments and individuals, run separately from the East ballot, with categories and dates confirmed only at clevelandmagazine.com each cycle.
Cleveland Scene's annual Best of Cleveland readers' poll at clevescene.com/best-of, run as a nomination round feeding a finalist ballot across 250+ categories, with winners named in the December issue. Confirmed live for the 2025 and 2026 cycles.
WJW, the Fox 8 television station serving Cleveland, Ohio, runs Cleveland's Own Nomination as a public-vote award on Second Street at fox8.secondstreetapp.com. The ballot is set up as a user-generated voting and photo promotion, and its listed window runs from June 22, 2020 through September 25, 2027, with the ballot still open. A nominated business that wants to plan a supporter push should treat the ballot itself, not any assumption, as the source of truth for categories and rules.
A Columbus business nominated to the Dispatch's Top Picks ballot needs votes from readers of The Columbus Dispatch. The ballot runs on Second Street, the nomination round has run in August in past cycles, and the winners guide has appeared in the paper in late December. This page sets out the confirmed edition years, the voting mechanic, and what the organizer leaves off the published ballot page.
Akron · CommunityVotes Akron
Akron, Ohio business owners find their readers' choice ballot at akron.communityvotes.com, home to CommunityVotes Akron within the wider CommunityVotes network. Nominations opened June 16 and the 2026 page keeps that window running through October 11. Akron's page stays silent on both a category roster and a vote cap once that window ends; confirm each on the live ballot when the next phase opens.
Canton · CommunityVotes Canton
CommunityVotes Canton is Canton, Ohio's readers' choice business ballot, hosted at cantonoh.communityvotes.com, with nominations open June 16 through October 11 in the confirmed 2026 cycle. Nothing about a Canton-specific category list or per-voter cap has surfaced past that window today. Confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
Dayton · CommunityVotes Dayton
Dayton, Ohio hosts CommunityVotes Dayton at dayton.communityvotes.com, run by a local CommunityVotes market partner, not a Dayton newspaper. Archived pages confirm two editions, 2024 and 2025, and the live page, now titled CommunityVotes Dayton 2026, keeps its nomination window open June 16 through October 11. Past that date, what gets published about categories or a vote limit stays thin; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
Parma · CommunityVotes Parma
Parma, Ohio gets its own readers' choice business ballot, CommunityVotes Parma, through the CommunityVotes network, hosted at parma.communityvotes.com. The 2026 nomination period is confirmed open from June 16 through October 11. Past that window, which categories qualify and whether a vote limit applies stay unpublished on parma.communityvotes.com; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
Toledo · CommunityVotes Toledo
CommunityVotes Toledo is the CommunityVotes network's readers' choice business ballot for Toledo, Ohio, hosted at toledo.communityvotes.com, separate from the Toledo Blade's Readers' Choice program and Toledo City Paper's own best-of ballot. Nominations opened June 16 and stay open through October 11 this cycle; confirm the rest on the live ballot each cycle.
Ohio's Contests And Events is the public-vote contests hub run by radio station WZCP on its own site, riverradio.com. Confirmed editions run across 2020 through 2026, and the page's dated activity clusters in September. Exact window dates, the category list and any per-supporter rules are not printed, so check the live ballot each cycle.
Greater Cincinnati readers pick CityBeat's Culture Maker of the Week on a free ballot hosted at citybeat.com. The round published on September 11, 2026 stays open until noon on Sept. 18, and the paper names the winner the following Friday. Nominations never close, so supporters can put forward an artist, chef, DJ or community builder at any point in the year.
The Daily Jeffersonian Athlete of the Week is a public vote run by The Daily Jeffersonian, a daily newspaper in Ohio. Local readers nominate high school athletes by noon Sunday, then vote on a Crowdsignal ballot that is open to anyone with a browser. Confirmed seasons run across 2025 and 2026. The current cycle's close is Friday, Sept. 11 at 3 p.m., and each week produces a fresh ballot for the next round of nominees.
Toledo Parent asks its readers each year to nominate and then vote for the local businesses their families rely on in the Toledo, Ohio area. The publisher calls it its annual Family Favorites contest, and confirmed editions run in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025. In the 2022 cycle, nominations were announced on February 4, 2022 and the voting-open notice went up March 20, 2022, with the window running through the end of that month. The ballot lives on toledoparent.com itself, and results are posted on the same site after voting closes.
WILB-FM, the Canton, Ohio Catholic radio station behind livingbreadradio.com, runs the Fish Fry Poll together with St. Raphael Books & Gifts. The ballot asks listeners to name the best fish fry in the region the station serves. The printed rules from the 2018 run allowed one vote per person per day and ran from February 16th to March 26th, with the fry earning the most votes named the winner. A 2025 edition also appears, and the poll reads as a recurring feature of the station's calendar.
Ohio supporters vote in the Times Recorder Athlete of the Week, a weekly public balloting series from the Times Recorder newspaper. The poll.fm platform, operated by Crowdsignal, carries each ballot. The confirmed poll on file covers the week of Jan. 12-18 and is now marked closed. Nominations go by email to the sports desk, and voting stays open until noon on Friday. Confirmed polls ran in 2025 and 2026.
The Times Recorder, an Ohio newspaper, publishes its Athlete of the Week as a weekly fan vote on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. The poll on file covers the Jan. 12-18 nominee window and now reads Poll Closed. The series runs annually, with editions confirmed for 2025 and 2026, so a fresh ballot replaces each closed one during the next cycle.
The Leadership Awards are run by Ohio University from its Athens, Ohio campus and hosted on the university's own ohio.edu website. The 43rd Annual Leadership Awards cycle is confirmed for 2026, and nominations and applications closed January 13. Unlike Ohio's media-run best-of ballots, this programme is built by a university for its own students. Winners from 2024, 2025 and 2026 appear on the site's Recipients pages, and applicants in the 2026 cycle were to be notified by the beginning of March.
Ohio supporters vote for the Mella Window & Carpet Cleaning Player of the Week at poll.fm/17442863, a Crowdsignal ballot honoring high school athletes. The season runs August through October, and eight editions are confirmed from 2019 through 2026.
This ballot belongs to Northeast Ohio Parent, a regional parenting publication serving the Cleveland and Akron area rather than a radio station or a statewide business network. Parents cast votes for family-friendly businesses, attractions and services they rate highest. The publisher's June 2025 winners post called it a 10th annual contest, and the 2024 and 2025 cycles are the printed editions. Voting activity is concentrated in spring, though the open and close days of that window appear only on the live contest pages.
The Times Recorder, the Ohio newspaper behind zanesvilletimesrecorder.com, closes its Athlete of the Year ballot for track and field on Crowdsignal each June; the 2026 edition shut at 5 p.m. on Monday, June 15, with the Tri-Valley nominee leading at 46 percent. Editions are on the books for 2022 and 2026, and the next is expected in 2027.
The Mansfield News Journal puts its READER'S CHOICE Athlete of the Year decision to readers in Mansfield, Ohio, on a Crowdsignal ballot at poll.fm. Editions ran in both 2025 and 2026, with the 2025-26 school year ballot live as poll number 17158985. Voting falls in June. Nominees span area high school sports, with Lexington, Madison and Ontario schools among those named on the current ballot.
The READER'S CHOICE MNJ Baseball Preseason Player of the Year is a high school baseball honor run by MNJ, with balloting on Crowdsignal's poll.fm service. Confirmed editions ran in 2023 and 2025, with the 2025 ballot voting in March. The current page shows the poll closed, and the organizer publishes no window dates or voting rules between editions.
MNJ runs a reader's choice ballot naming a boys high school basketball player of the year in Ohio, hosted at Crowdsignal (poll.fm). The 2023 and 2025 cycles are confirmed, and the 2025 poll closed in March after the leading nominee finished on 48 percent of 7,328 votes. Nominees on the latest ballot represented Lexington, Mansfield Senior, Ontario, Crestview, Mansfield Christian and Shelby. Window dates and any per-supporter rules are not printed by the organizer.
This page covers a lone award ballot rather than a weekly series. Under the banner Rock the vote! Who is the TR Girls Basketball Player of the Year?, organizer TR runs a Crowdsignal ballot at poll.fm for an Ohio cluster of high schools. Two editions are on file, 2022 and 2026, the latest window falling in March, and the 2026 poll displays closed status with its final totals intact.
The Canton Repository's readers-choice business awards, run on the YourChoiceAwards platform (Gannett): nominations April 9-30, a top-5 finalist cutoff per category, then public voting June 16-30 across 130+ Stark County business categories.
Readers decide the Chillicothe Gazette H.S. Athlete of the Week, a weekly honor for high school athletes in Chillicothe, Ohio, run by the Chillicothe Gazette H.S. through Crowdsignal on poll.fm. Voting activity runs across an April-to-September stretch, with confirmed editions in 2022, 2025 and 2026. Each ballot asks a single question, who deserves the weekly honor, and the latest closed poll ended with a leading total of 2,381 votes.
The Lancaster Eagle-Gazette closes each sports year with a fan poll naming one male athlete of the year for its Lancaster, Ohio readers, hosted on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Where rival Ohio newsrooms vote weekly, this ballot lands once per cycle. Confirmed runs cover 2023 and 2026. The announced window runs 6 a.m. Tuesday to 5 p.m. Friday, with six nominees listed.
The Fall Sports Girls Athlete of the Week honours girls athletes in Ohio fall sports through a weekly public vote, run under the Fall Sports organizer name with Crowdsignal's poll.fm hosting the ballot. The 2022 and 2024 cycles are the confirmed editions, and voting in each one runs from September into November. Weekly dates, the category roster and any per-supporter limit never appear on the ballot, so read the live poll before casting a vote.
The Times Recorder Preseason Offensive Athlete of the Year is a preseason high school football poll from the Times Recorder, the Ohio newspaper behind zanesvilletimesrecorder.com. The vote runs on Crowdsignal through the poll.fm poll tool. The 2026 vote opened Aug. 3 and closes Aug. 10 at Noon. Editions ran in 2024 and 2025 before this cycle. The ballot asks one offensive-player question and prints no category list or per-supporter vote rule.
The Vindicator's Youngstown-area readers-choice program runs at vindy.com through three stages: open nominations, a first round that narrows each category to five finalists, and a final round that narrows to three, spanning Mahoning, Trumbull, and Columbiana counties in Ohio plus Mercer County just across the Pennsylvania line.
Each school week during the season, The Times Reporter posts a Crowdsignal poll on poll.fm asking readers across Ohio to pick the boys high school athlete who performed best. Nominations go to [email protected] by noon Sunday, and the current ballot closes Friday, Sep. 18 at 3 p.m. Seasons are confirmed for 2024, 2025 and 2026.
The Times Reporter newspaper in Ohio publishes a weekly girls athlete ballot on Crowdsignal at poll.fm under the Times-Reporter Girls Athlete of the Week name. Seasons are confirmed for 2024, 2025 and 2026, and the most recent ballot on file covered March 30 through April 4 before closing. Each new round carries its own nominee slate and its own dates.
The Eagle-Gazette invites its readers to pick a Preseason Softball Player of the Year on the newspaper's poll.fm ballot, hosted through Crowdsignal. The vote runs in March, and confirmed editions sit in 2023, 2025 and 2026. Nominees are high school softball players listed by name and school on the ballot itself. This page explains who runs the vote, when it opens, how a supporter casts a ballot, and what the organizer has and has not published about the rules.
The Eagle-Gazette H.S. Male Athlete of the Year ballot is a Crowdsignal (poll.fm) award decided by community voting for Ohio high school boys sports. The 2026 edition ran in July, and an earlier edition is confirmed for 2023. Supporters pick one nominee from the published list and submit their choice on the poll page. Exact window dates, category details and per-supporter rules are not printed with the ballot, so check the live poll before planning a push.
The Eagle-Gazette, an Ohio publisher, lets readers pick a preseason player of the year for high school baseball through a Crowdsignal ballot hosted at poll.fm. The series has editions in 2022, 2025 and 2026, each falling in the March and April window. The stated voting period runs from 6 a.m. on Monday until 5 p.m. on Friday, and fans may vote multiple times. The next ballot's calendar dates are not printed in advance.
Ohio high school football, soccer and volleyball supporters use this page to find the Fall Sports Girls Athlete of the Week ballot. Crowdsignal (poll.fm) hosts the vote at poll.fm/14487404, and confirmed editions ran in 2022 and 2024 with voting falling between September and November. The current ballot shows as closed, so supporters should check the live poll for the next open round rather than expecting a fixed calendar.
The Chillicothe Gazette runs an athlete-of-the-week fan ballot for Chillicothe, Ohio, carried on Crowdsignal through poll.fm. Editions are confirmed for 2022 and 2025, and the voting window in the Gazette's published schedule runs 6 a.m. Monday to 5 p.m. Friday. Readers pick from a short list of nominated local athletes on the live poll page. The Gazette has not printed a season slate beyond the current nominee list; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
The Western Ohio HBA runs an in-person People's Choice ballot during its annual Parade of Homes tour around Dayton. Visitors cast a vote while physically touring the show homes, coordinated through the poh.westernohiohba.com portal, rather than from a standalone web ballot reachable without ever leaving the couch.
The Chillicothe Gazette runs a high school Athlete of the Week vote for the Chillicothe, Ohio area, carried on Crowdsignal through its poll.fm service. Editions are confirmed for 2022, 2025 and 2026, with ballots falling between April and September. Unlike statewide Ohio polls, this ballot serves a single local readership and names a handful of nominees per round. Each round closes with a published tally, and the newest ballot on the site carries the live vote.
The Times Recorder, an Ohio newspaper by its web domain, lets readers decide its Player of the Year award for boys basketball, carried on Crowdsignal through poll.fm. The newest ballot shut at noon on March 4, 2026, and earlier evidence places an edition in 2022. This page lays out who publishes the award, which editions are on file, the literal voting steps and how the poll compares with other Ohio high school ballots.
Wood County Humane Society runs a public photo calendar fundraiser from Bowling Green, Ohio, and its vote lives on the GoGo Photo Contest ballot at gogophotocontest.com/wchs2026. That page names a photo entry deadline of 11:55 PM Eastern Time on Monday, September 15, 2025, and a voting deadline of 11:55 PM Eastern Time on Tuesday, September 30, 2025. The current page reports the contest has ended, and the organizer's welcome text calls it a sixth annual calendar photo contest. Confirmed edition years are 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026.
The Daily Record in Wooster, Ohio, runs a seasonal fan vote naming a player of the year in high school baseball for Wayne and Holmes counties. The ballot runs on poll.fm, a Crowdsignal property. The 2026 window ran June 23 through June 26, and an earlier edition is confirmed for 2023.
Wooster area track fans vote for the Daily Record's athlete of the year award for boys track and field on a Crowdsignal ballot. The confirmed 2026 round ran in June and is now closed, and an earlier edition is confirmed for 2023. The ballot draws high school nominees from schools around Wooster, Ohio, and the newspaper has not published open and close dates, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
The Wooster Daily Record lets readers pick the preseason player of the year in prep baseball through a Crowdsignal page at poll.fm. Editions are on file for 2022 and 2026, and the 2026 vote was live in March, with polls open from 4 a.m. Monday until noon Friday. The closed 2026 ballot shows a leading nominee who finished with 38 percent of 5,430 votes cast.
Humane Ohio runs the Pints for Pets Beer Label Photo Contest, a pet photo vote hosted on GoGo Photo Contest. The 2025 edition's voting period ran from 9:00 AM Eastern Time on Monday, June 16, 2025 until 9:00 PM Eastern Time on Monday, June 30, 2025. The pet with the most votes is featured on a specially brewed beer from Maumee Bay Brewing. The 2024 and 2025 runs are the editions confirmed for this ballot, and the sponsor lists a Toledo, Ohio address.
Medina County
Voting for the Life is Precious Baby Photo Contest runs August 15 through September 30, 2026, on gogophotocontest.com/lifeisprecious at one dollar per vote, organized by Medina County Right to Life in Medina County, Ohio. The organizer's own page calls the 2026 run its "12th Annual Life is Precious - Baby Photo Contest," while archived editions of the page place confirmed runnings in 2023 and 2026. Whether a roster of ballot categories exists, or a ceiling on how often one supporter may give, isn't printed there; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
Medina County Right to Life hosts the Life is Precious Baby Photo Contest, a fundraiser ballot on the GoGo Photo Contest platform serving Medina County, Ohio. The 2026 ballot prints a voting window from Saturday, August 15, 2026 through midnight Eastern Time on Wednesday, September 30, 2026, and the page calls that run the 12th Annual edition. Each vote is a one dollar donation, so support for a baby's photo doubles as fundraising for the organization. Confirmed edition years are 2023 and 2026.
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