Vote now for Lebanon County football's preseason offensive player of the year: How Voting Works & How to Win

A county-scoped preseason ballot, not another statewide weekly vote

Most fan-vote ballots a Pennsylvania football supporter runs into are statewide and weekly. The weekly ballot for Pennsylvania high school football, linked here, and the Mr. PA Football ballot both draw from the entire state. This program is the opposite shape: it covers one county, Lebanon County, and it runs before the season rather than during it. That contrast is the first thing to understand, because a supporter who treats the two as the same contest will misread both the nominee list and the calendar.

The program's full title is Vote now for Lebanon County football's preseason offensive player of the year. The organizer is the Lebanon County football program itself, and Crowdsignal's poll.fm platform hosts the ballot, as it does a large share of the fan votes tracked on this site. The voting URL is https://poll.fm/17368520, which loads the offensive player of the year question directly.

The vertical is sport, supporters cast a plain public vote, and the market is Lebanon County in Pennsylvania. The table below sets out the program's fixed details.

The dated record for the Lebanon County preseason poll

Two editions of the Lebanon County football preseason offensive player of the year are confirmed, in 2025 and 2026. Both are summer ballots, which is what makes the program a preseason fixture rather than an in-season award: the vote finishes its work before Lebanon County teams play a counting game. The 2027 summer should bring the next edition, though no schedule for it has been published.

The 2026 window runs from July into August, and its close is the one dated fact printed on the ballot itself: voting runs through Wednesday, Aug. 26 at noon. That phrasing comes from the ballot page for the 2026 edition, and it is the deadline every supporter and every campaign has to work against. The opening day inside July appears nowhere on the ballot page.

The nominee structure is stated in the organizer's own words: "There's five nominations from each Lebanon County team and 30 players to choose from altogether." That gives the 2026 ballot thirty nominees, five from every team in the county, all competing for a single offensive player of the year title.

No rules text sits on the ballot itself. The per-supporter vote limit, any one-vote-per-day rule and the eligibility terms are absent from the poll.fm page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Everything else above is fixed for the 2026 edition, and the August 26 noon close is the date to mark.

How a supporter votes on the poll.fm ballot today

The mechanic is deliberately bare. A supporter opens poll.fm/17368520, and the Lebanon County football preseason offensive player of the year ballot loads with its nominee list already set. There is no nomination round for the public to work through and no category menu, because the organizer has already narrowed the field to thirty players, five from each Lebanon County team.

Each nominee entry on the ballot names a player with his class year and his Lebanon County school, so a supporter can find a familiar team quickly. The choice is made by selecting one nominee and pressing the vote button beneath the list. Crowdsignal registers the pick on the poll.fm page and displays the tally as it stands, which is how supporters in Lebanon County track whether their player is leading.

Two practical points follow from the ballot's shape. First, because the nominee list is fixed, a supporter cannot write in a player the organizer left off; the thirty names on the 2026 ballot are the whole field. Second, the ballot page carries no instruction about accounts or repeat voting, so anyone planning a second visit should simply reload the page and see whether the vote button still accepts a choice.

The deadline is the only hard constraint: the 2026 ballot closes Wednesday, Aug. 26 at noon, and votes after that moment do not count toward the preseason offensive player of the year result.

Where this ballot sits among its Pennsylvania neighbours

Lebanon County's preseason poll shares a platform and a vertical with six sibling programs on this site, but it differs from every one of them on scope or timing. The PennLive Mid-Penn Boys Basketball Player of the Week is a weekly in-season ballot in a different sport. The Pennsylvania High School Softball Player of the Year covers a different season entirely. The Morning Call Athlete of the Week and the WICU Athlete of the Year are publisher-run ballots with statewide or regional reach, while this program answers only to Lebanon County.

The closest neighbour in sport is the weekly Pennsylvania high school football ballot at its own page, and even there the overlap is partial: that series runs weekly during the season across the whole state, while the Lebanon County football preseason offensive poll is a single summer question confined to one county's teams. A player can hold a title on one ballot and nothing on the other.

What sets this program apart, then, is the combination of three things no sibling shares: a county-only nominee pool of thirty players, a preseason calendar that closes in August before games begin, and a single offensive honour decided in one pass rather than a rotating weekly field. For a Lebanon County supporter, this is the local ballot; the siblings serve the wider Pennsylvania audience.

Rallying support before the August close

Because the Lebanon County football ballot is a single public vote with a fixed nominee list, support campaigns here are simpler than on a weekly series: there is one deadline, Wednesday, Aug. 26 at noon, and one page to point people at. The effective moves are local ones, sharing the poll.fm link through team group chats, booster club pages and school communities where the thirty nominees are already known by name. The ballot publishes no stated policy on outside voting help, so anyone considering paid support should read our guide to getting more votes online and weigh the organizer's silence against the risk before acting, and our award votes page describes the general service without promising any outcome in this poll.