Call & Times Community Choice: How Voting Works & How to Win

Three confirmed editions, and a 2026 window running July 18 through September 14

Call & Times Community Choice has run three confirmed years: 2024, 2025, and now 2026, open on westerlysun.secondstreetapp.com since July 18 through a close of September 14. RI Media Group organizes it at the same web address confirmed for Westerly, Rhode Island, with the deepest published history of any named ballot there.

Past that window, what's actually confirmed thins out fast: no category roster appears, no per-voter ceiling is stated, and no eligibility rule shows up anywhere on the current listing.

Treat that last row honestly. Confirm on the live ballot each cycle, since three editions of history hasn't produced a published category roster or cap even this far in.

One web address, three separately named ballots

westerlysun.secondstreetapp.com is the same web address confirmed for Westerly, Rhode Island, and RI Media Group runs it as a shared Second Street account, carrying Call & Times Community Choice alongside two other separately named ballots. Confusing the three means crediting the wrong ballot's own count entirely.

How that plays out for a nomination on this ballot

A shared link or a screenshot naming only "westerlysun.secondstreetapp.com" could point to any of the three ballots above, since the domain itself never distinguishes them. Only the full path, Call--Times-Community-Choice-2026, actually lands on this specific ballot, distinct from the other two named promotions on the same account.

Beyond that one household of three ballots, Rhode Island runs several unrelated "best of" and readers'-choice programs under entirely different publishers.

Call & Times Community Choice alongside RI Media Group's other promotions

Call & Times Community Choice is not the only promotion RI Media Group runs on westerlysun.secondstreetapp.com. The same account keeps a rotating sweepstakes and seasonal-contest schedule going alongside its three named readers'-choice ballots.

None of those promotions share an entry form with Call & Times Community Choice's own ballot, and none of them count toward a nominee's own standing in the readers'-choice program.

Building a push around three editions, and around the right address

With three confirmed editions behind it, Call & Times Community Choice has more history than either of RI Media Group's other two ballots, but still nothing published on categories or a vote ceiling. The practical move for a business chasing this ballot is working the July 18 through September 14 window directly, sharing the exact path rather than the bare domain, and reaching real Call & Times readers more than once before it closes.

None of that changes once RI Media Group eventually publishes more detail on what a category breakdown or a voting limit might look like. Genuine readers, contacted directly and repeatedly, are what actually moves a ballot like this, whatever shape those unpublished rules eventually take. Leaning on automated activity instead carries real weight against a program that already has three years of published history to protect.

Reaching the ballot is one step; RI Media Group alone decides the outcome once its own count for Call & Times Community Choice closes. Is buying votes legal draws the line between an ordinary support push and a riskier one, and award-vote campaign planning is built around a readers'-choice shape exactly like this one.