Chaschoice: How Voting Works & How to Win

What Chaschoice is and who runs it

Chaschoice is the program name for Charleston's Choice, the best-of ballot that The Post and Courier runs for its Charleston, South Carolina readership. The promotion page is titled Charleston's Choice and sits on postandcourier.com, while the balloting itself happens on a dedicated Second Street address, pnccontests.secondstreetapp.com. Second Street is the white-label contest platform that, according to the evidence gathered for this page, thousands of US newspapers, radio groups and TV stations use for their reader promotions, so the ballot behaves like the reader-vote contests many local publishers run.

Classified under the best-of vertical, this program runs as a public vote: readers put forward a favorite business, and the promotion's own call to action reads "Make your voice heard for Charleston's Choice!" The ballot lives at http://pnccontests.secondstreetapp.com/ChasChoice_2022/, the address this page treats as the program's voting URL. The Post and Courier's Charleston address, 148 Williman Street, Charleston, SC 29403, appears in the page footer, tying the promotion to the newspaper's Charleston Area News operation rather than to a statewide chain or a national contest factory.

For a business owner the practical picture is straightforward: this is a nomination-stage promotion run by Charleston's metro daily on a mainstream platform, and support is measured in nominations and votes from the public. The table gathers the fixed facts in a single place.

The edition timeline for Chaschoice

The program's confirmed editions run from 2021 through 2026, one per year, which makes Chaschoice a yearly fixture rather than a promotion that ran once. The 2022 in the voting URL reflects the edition year that the live address was built around, and the same host has carried the program across the years since.

The one dated fact the current page prints is the nomination deadline: "Nominate your favorite business now through July 24!" That sentence is the anchor for the cycle's timing. The page prints nothing about the rest of the schedule. Opening and closing dates for the voting stage, the platform's round dates and any run-off structure are all absent from the published material. The ballot also leaves off its category lineup, any cap on how frequently a single person can act, and who qualifies to take part; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Recurrence points to a 2027 edition, since the program has run in every year from 2021 to 2026 without a gap. Nothing published names when the next cycle's nomination stage opens, so a business planning around Chaschoice should watch the Post and Courier's contest pages as July approaches rather than assuming the same cutoff repeats.

How a supporter votes on Chaschoice today

Supporting a business on Chaschoice is a two-part action on the Second Street ballot. First, a supporter opens the voting URL, http://pnccontests.secondstreetapp.com/ChasChoice_2022/, in a browser. The page presents the Charleston's Choice promotion with its call to nominate a favorite business. Second, the supporter enters the business they want to put forward and submits the form before the July 24 cutoff printed on the page.

Because the current page sits in the nominations phase, the action a supporter performs today is a nomination, not a ranked vote across categories. The page body carries almost no vote language at all, which fits a ballot whose visible work at this stage is the nomination box. Whether the same address later turns into a full voting round, and what that round looks like once it does, is not published for this market in advance.

Practical notes for the person voting: anyone can nominate without paying and no purchase is needed, and the host is a standard Second Street form of the kind used across local newspaper contests. The organizer leaves the per-supporter rule unstated on this ballot, so anyone planning repeated action should read the rules shown on the live form before building a daily-return habit around an assumption the page does not state.

How Chaschoice sits beside its South Carolina neighbours

Chaschoice sits in a crowded South Carolina best-of field. Six sibling programs appear alongside it on this site: the Best of South Carolina Awards, the BroadwayWorld South Carolina Awards, the Best of Charleston run by the Charleston City Paper, Charleston Magazine's Best Of, and two Columbia ballots, Best of Columbia via Columbia Metropolitan and Best of Columbia via Free Times.

What separates Chaschoice from those neighbours is its publisher and its scope. The Post and Courier is Charleston's metro daily, and Charleston's Choice is framed around Charleston Area readers, while the two Columbia programs answer to a different city entirely and the Best of South Carolina Awards spans the state broadly. A Charleston business deciding where to ask for support is therefore choosing between overlapping but distinct audiences: the daily paper's ballot, the alternative weekly's Best of Charleston, the magazine's list, and the statewide award.

Each program runs on its own schedule and under its own publisher's rules, so a nomination made on one counts only there. Comparing deadlines, category structures and platforms across the six is worth an hour, because the audience a business actually reaches differs more than the ballot pages themselves suggest. Links to every sibling page appear in the related contests list for side-by-side reading.

Strengthening support before the nomination cutoff

Because the live stage is nominations through July 24, strengthening support in Chaschoice means moving customers to the nomination form early in the window rather than late. A business's most reliable lever is its own audience: a sign at the counter, a line on receipts, a short email to regulars, and a social post that spells the business name exactly as customers already type it. The organizer publishes no stated policy on organized voting pushes for this ballot, so keep outreach aimed at genuine supporters instead of bulk tactics that a newspaper contest can void. For broader methods suited to contests of this shape, our guide to earning support, get more votes online, goes deeper. If you are weighing paid support instead, read the legal position first on the legality page, then compare options on our service page.