Best of Claremore: How Voting Works & How to Win

One ballot, several sweepstakes: separating what Best of Claremore actually is

Not every Second Street link on the Claremore Daily Progress account is Best of Claremore. The same organizer also runs quarterly cash sweepstakes on a repeating schedule, giveaways that require nothing more than a sign-up. Best of Claremore 2026, by contrast, is the paper's one Ballot-type promotion, a nominate-and-vote program built around actual local businesses rather than a random drawing.

Five editions confirm that this is not a one-off: 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and the round running now through October 27, 2026. The Daily Progress hosts it directly at claremoredailyprogress.secondstreetapp.com, its own address rather than one shared with any sweepstakes or with another Oklahoma market.

Five straight years of the same nominate-and-vote structure is a genuinely long stretch for a community newspaper's Second Street account. Still, confirm on the live ballot each cycle for anything past those dates, since a steady calendar is not the same as a posted rulebook.

A Rogers County paper, not one of central Oklahoma's bigger ballots

Claremore sits well outside Oklahoma's biggest metro area, and its own newspaper ballot has no bearing on the cluster of "405 area code" programs that dominate central Oklahoma's readers'-choice scene.

None of those six touch Rogers County directly, and a nomination lodged in one of them means nothing toward Claremore's own results. A business trying to chase recognition across several of these programs at once is filing separate entries under separate deadlines, not running one campaign.

Why picking the right link matters here specifically

A search for "Claremore best of" can just as easily return an unrelated Oklahoma program with a similar-sounding name, a prior year's Daily Progress page, or one of the quarterly sweepstakes on the same account. Only September 19 through October 27 is settled for 2026; a category roster and a per-voter cap remain unpublished, so claremoredailyprogress.secondstreetapp.com is where that gap actually gets filled first.

Claremore and Rogers County, what the ballot covers and what it doesn't

Best of Claremore runs for Claremore, Rogers County, Oklahoma, and the Daily Progress account has not published any second ballot for a neighboring county. Rogers County is the only geography this particular program actually claims.

The same claremoredailyprogress.secondstreetapp.com account carries a running schedule of cash sweepstakes alongside Best of Claremore: a Q1, a Q2, a Q3 and a Q4 sweepstakes rotate through the year on their own separate entry pages, distinct from the nominate-and-vote ballot. A Rogers County business chasing recognition should keep the two apart, since entering a sweepstakes does nothing for a Best of Claremore nomination, and the reverse holds too.

Confirm on the live ballot each cycle whether the organizer ever extends the program beyond Rogers County; nothing published today draws that map.

Working with five years of pattern instead of a published rulebook

Five confirmed editions give a Claremore business more to plan around than most newspaper ballots offer, even without a stated category list or vote cap. The practical step is identifying which actual Rogers County customers will click through to claremoredailyprogress.secondstreetapp.com before October 27, then following up with them more than once across the window rather than making one attempt near the close.

That approach holds no matter how the sixth edition eventually treats its own rules. Genuine supporters, contacted directly and repeatedly, are what actually shifts a ballot like this; steady real engagement spread across the full window carries far more weight than one burst of activity near the deadline. is buying votes legal draws a clear line between a safe push and a risky one, worth reading before committing real budget to Claremore's sixth round. Buying votes online covers the kind of outside support a Second Street ballot this size can reasonably use, and award-vote campaign planning is built specifically around this readers'-choice format.