Lebanon County Midseason Football Player of the Year (Defense): How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Lebanon County midseason defense award is and who runs it

The Lebanon County Midseason Football Player of the Year (Defense) ballot is a high school football honor decided entirely by reader vote. Lebanon County, the organizer named in the program's own title, runs the award for Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, and Crowdsignal hosts the voting, with the defense ballot sitting at https://poll.fm/16064586. The award covers the defensive side of the ball only, which is what separates it from an overall player of the year race: a county defender wins it, not a quarterback or a running back.

The market is tightly drawn. Every nominee on the 2025 ballot came from a Lebanon County high school program, with Annville-Cleona, Cedar Crest and ELCO among the schools supplying candidates and Palmyra also present in the county's option list. That makes this a single-county ballot rather than a regional or statewide one, and a supporter reading the nominee list is looking at players from the same schools they see on Friday nights in Lebanon, Cleona and the surrounding county towns.

This reference table sets out the program's fixed details in one place, drawn from the ballot page and the county's own voting materials, so any row can be quoted directly. The one caution a reader should carry is that the ballot page is thin on structure: it names the nominees and the voting window, and leaves the rest of the rules unstated.

The dated record for the Lebanon County defense ballot

The defense vote has run in two separate cycles so far, 2023 and 2025, both carried on the poll.fm series under the same midseason defense title. That pair is what makes the ballot annual rather than a one-off: the county has run the defense vote in distinct editions, and the platform's dating places the live cycle in September, at the point the fall schedule has enough games behind it for a midseason judgment.

The 2025 ballot carried its own deadline in plain text: voting runs through Wednesday, Aug. 26 at noon. That instruction, printed on the ballot itself, is the single dated fact a supporter needs for the most recent cycle, and the same ballot now displays a poll closed marker, so the window it described has passed. The ballot's nominating structure is also printed: "There's five nominations from each Lebanon County team and 30 players to choose from altogether." Thirty nominees, five per team, is the full field the defense vote draws from.

A rules layer is missing from the ballot page. It publishes no list of award categories beyond the defense honor itself and no per-supporter voting rule; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The organizer has likewise not printed eligibility terms or a tiebreak procedure on the ballot, so a supporter planning around any of those details is planning around facts the county has not yet put in writing.

How a supporter votes on the Lebanon County defense ballot today

Voting takes four motions, and they are identical for every one of the thirty nominees. A supporter opens the defense ballot at https://poll.fm/16064586, reads the list of county defenders, selects the one answer they want to advance, and presses the vote control under the thirty names. The platform logs the choice at once. No nomination form stands between a supporter and the count, and no second round follows; the midseason defense honor is decided in a single reader vote on the one ballot.

Two practical points follow from the ballot as printed. First, the selection is one nominee per submission, so a supporter who wants two county players to advance cannot split a single ballot between them. Second, the current page for poll 16064586 shows a poll closed marker, which means the 2025 edition can no longer be voted on; the same address will carry the next cycle's ballot when Lebanon County publishes it.

The ballot page prints no account instruction, so nothing in the visible flow asks a supporter to register before voting. It also prints no daily return rule, which is why the frequency question in the FAQ above cannot be answered from the published page alone. What is dependable is the printed deadline, Wednesday, Aug. 26 at noon for the 2025 cycle, and the thirty-nominee field drawn five per county team.

How this ballot sits beside its Pennsylvania neighbours

Lebanon County's midseason defense vote is one of several Pennsylvania public-vote programs on this site, and its neighbours help show what makes it distinct. Mr. PA Football is a statewide football honor, while the Pennsylvania High School Football Player of the Week ballot runs on a weekly rhythm across the whole state. The Lebanon County ballot does the opposite: it narrows to one county, one side of the ball, and one point in the season.

The other siblings cover different sports and different publishers. The PennLive Mid-Penn Boys Basketball Player of the Week vote belongs to a winter sport, the Pennsylvania High School Softball Player of the Year ballot to a spring one, and the Morning Call Athlete of the Week and WICU Athlete of the Year programs are publisher-run athlete honors rather than football awards.

Against that set, the Lebanon County defense ballot is the only one that is county-bounded, defense-only and midseason-timed. A supporter comparing programs should also note the platform: this ballot and several of its siblings share the same Crowdsignal poll.fm infrastructure, so the voting motion a supporter learned on one Pennsylvania ballot transfers directly to this one.

Strengthening support for a Lebanon County defense nominee

Because the ballot is a straight reader vote with a printed close, support for a county defender comes down to turning out voters before the deadline, Wednesday, Aug. 26 at noon on the most recent cycle. The ballot's structure gives a campaign a clear target: thirty nominees, five per Lebanon County team, means each school's candidate is competing directly with four county rivals plus the rest of the defensive field, so a school community that votes as a block has a real edge.

The ballot page prints no rule addressing organized voting pushes or outside help, so the safe reading is to work within what the visible mechanic allows and to treat any repeat-vote question as one for the live ballot. For tactics that fit a reader-voted ballot of this shape, see how to get more votes online, and for the rules and legality picture around purchased support, see is buying votes legal and buy votes online.