BEST OF MOORE 2024 | Moore Monthly: How Voting Works & How to Win

What Best of Moore and South OKC is and who runs it

Most Oklahoma reader ballots cast a wide net. The metro-wide titles speak to the whole OKC metro at once. Best of Moore and South OKC does the opposite: Moore Monthly, the publication behind it, aims the awards at a specific slice of the metro, the city of Moore together with the south OKC area. That hyperlocal focus is the program's identity, and it is why the ballot page carries the full title Best of Moore and South OKC Voting 2025.

The organizer is Moore Monthly, which publishes at mooremonthly.com and operates the ballot itself instead of routing supporters through a third-party contest platform. The program is a best-of business awards ballot: readers nominate local businesses and then vote among the nominees. The 2025 cycle followed that shape exactly, with the publisher congratulating everyone nominated for the 2025 awards, thanking participants for the nomination process, and opening the voting round on the same page once nominations were in.

Because the publisher keeps the whole program on mooremonthly.com, the ballot page is also where any change to the format appears between cycles.

The dated facts: editions, window and gala

The program's confirmed edition years are 2024, 2025 and 2026. The 2025 cycle is the best documented. Its voting window fell in January 2025, and the ballot page stated plainly that voting ends at midnight on January 16, 2025. A nomination round preceded the voting round; the publisher thanked participants for the nomination process before opening the vote on the same page.

The 2025 run drew measurable support: more than 13,000 votes were cast in January 2025. The cycle also included an in-person gala at the Riverwind Casino Showplace Theater on March 11, a venue the publisher described as its regular time and location for the event. Runner-up recognition under the Bommie's name appears in the publisher's materials alongside that gala.

Several facts sit outside what the publisher has printed. The ballot page does not print the full roster of categories supporters vote across; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The exact dates of the nomination round are not published either. No eligibility rule and no ceiling on total votes per person appear on the voting page. Whether the 2026 edition has announced its own window is likewise not stated anywhere in the publisher's materials held for this program.

What is firm is the shape: a nomination phase, a January voting phase, and a gala afterward at the Riverwind Casino Showplace Theater.

How a supporter votes on the Moore Monthly ballot

Voting happens entirely on the publication's own ballot page, and the sequence is short. A supporter opens the Best of Moore and South OKC Voting 2025 page on mooremonthly.com, confirms that the nomination round has closed, and then votes among the nominees in the categories listed on the form. The publisher's stated rule is generous: you may vote multiple times in as many categories as you like. That means a supporter is not confined to a single pass through the ballot and can back a nominated business in every category where it appears.

One technical wrinkle is documented by the publisher itself. Some voters received an Invalid data error message while voting, and Moore Monthly's troubleshooting note says the fix is to clear the web browser's stored data. For Google Chrome on a computer, the instruction is to open Chrome and clear saved browsing data from the browser menu, then return to the ballot and vote again. Passing that fix along to supporters before they start avoids lost votes mid-ballot.

The voting URL for the confirmed cycle is https://www.mooremonthly.com/best-of-moore-and-south-okc-voting-2025/, and the deadline printed there was midnight on January 16, 2025. Because the publisher has not printed a daily-return rule, the multiple-categories instruction is the only voting rule supporters have in writing, and the live page is where any change to it would appear.

How this ballot sits beside its Oklahoma siblings

Oklahoma readers have no shortage of best-of ballots, and this program's neighbours define it by contrast. The metro-wide titles, including Best of OKC, Best of OKC (Oklahoma Gazette) and 405 Magazine Best of 405, speak to the whole metro area. Best of the 405 works the same broad corridor. Best of Moore and South OKC narrows to Moore and the city's southern half, so a business that serves that specific area competes against a smaller, more local field than it would on a metro-wide ballot.

The closest structural cousins are the single-town ballots elsewhere in the state: Norman Transcript Readers' Choice in Norman and Best of Claremore in Claremore. Those programs, like this one, are anchored to a specific community rather than to the whole metro, and each one reports to a separate publisher running a separate calendar.

For a nominated business the practical difference matters. Support earned on the Moore Monthly ballot belongs to this program alone; votes cast on a sibling ballot do not transfer. A business with customers across the metro can plausibly appear on more than one of these ballots in the same season, but each ballot is campaigned for separately, on its own page, under its own publisher's instructions.

Strengthening support in this program

This ballot rewards breadth, and that is the honest starting point for any business trying to widen its support. Moore Monthly's stated rule allows voting multiple times in as many categories as a supporter likes, so an ask that covers every category where the business is nominated produces more votes than an ask that names just a single category. The January window is short, closing at midnight on January 16, 2025 in the confirmed cycle, so requests to customers work best early in the month rather than in the final days.

The publisher's own troubleshooting is also part of the playbook. The Invalid data error some voters hit is fixed by clearing the browser's stored data, and telling supporters that fix in advance keeps a technical hiccup from silently dropping votes. Moore Monthly has printed nothing about outside vote services either way, so the organizer's written rules are the only guidance on the question. For tactics that fit reader-voted awards like this, see how to get more votes online, and for the commercial options the buy award votes page lays out what is offered generally.