CommunityVotes Everett: How Voting Works & How to Win

What CommunityVotes Everett is and who runs it

CommunityVotes Everett is a community voting awards program for Everett, Washington. Its 2026 edition ran under the title CommunityVotes Everett WA 2026 and described itself on its own masthead as the awards platform for the city, a place "Where the community votes for their favorites every year." That self-description is the clearest statement of what the program is: a best-of style ballot where local residents pick their favorite businesses across a range of categories.

The organizer is CommunityVotes, which operates this market through a local partner. CommunityVotes is a platform brand that runs city-level voting awards sites across the United States, and the Everett market lives on its own domain at everettwa.communityvotes.com rather than inside a newspaper or chamber website. The ballot is a public-vote program in the business and best-of vertical, meaning the nominees are local companies and the voters are members of the public rather than a judging panel.

The program sits alongside other Washington best-of ballots covered on this site, including Best of Snohomish County, which serves the same county from a newspaper publisher. The table below gathers the essentials about the Everett program in one place.

The dated record for CommunityVotes Everett

Two editions of CommunityVotes Everett are on the books, 2025 and 2026. Documentation is fullest for the latest cycle, because its own site carried the phases and the closing message. The ballot pages labeled the cycle in three stages, "Nomination Period", "Voting Period" and "Winners Period", so the year runs from nominations through voting to a winners announcement rather than as a single open window.

The hard dated fact for 2026 is the close. The ballot told supporters, "Please have your votes in before Sunday August 2 at 11:59 pm." After that point the site flipped to a results state: the August 2026 page carried the message "Thank you for voting!" with a link reading "Click Here to See the Winners!", and the masthead noted the Promote and Awards Voting Results for August 2026. The results phase therefore ran through August 2026, with winners published on the site itself.

What the organizer has not printed anywhere on the Everett pages is the day-level opening date for the voting window, the full category roster, or any per-supporter voting rule; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The 2026 site did carry commercial elements around the ballot, including a featured supporter called "That Chicken Place" and a "Promote Your Business" offer noting "Limited spots available", which shows businesses can buy promotional placement in the campaign itself.

How a supporter votes in CommunityVotes Everett today

Voting happens as a straightforward public ballot on the CommunityVotes platform. A supporter opens everettwa.communityvotes.com, lands on the CommunityVotes Everett WA 2026 site, and uses the navigation to reach the voting area. During a live cycle the site shows the current phase, because the 2026 pages carried the Nomination Period, Voting Period and Winners Period labels side by side. If the nomination window is open, supporters put forward a local business; once the voting period starts, they select a category, review the nominees and submit their choice.

The ballot is organized by business category. The evidence pages for the 2026 cycle show groupings such as automotive repair and maintenance under automotive, and services such as junk removal, which indicates a directory-style structure typical of CommunityVotes markets. The full category list is not published outside the ballot, so a supporter sees the complete roster only on the live site.

After the close, the results appear on the same domain. The 2026 post-close page thanked voters and linked to the winners list, so the whole cycle from nomination to announcement stays on everettwa.communityvotes.com. No account requirement, daily vote rule or eligibility text is printed on the Everett pages, so the wording displayed during the voting period at everettwa.communityvotes.com governs that cycle.

How CommunityVotes Everett sits beside its Washington neighbours

Everett's program belongs to a wider family of best-of ballots covering Washington markets, and every one of them has a different publisher behind it. The closest neighbour by geography is Best of Snohomish County, a newspaper-run ballot covering the county that contains Everett. A business in Everett can therefore appear in two separate community ballots in the same year, and support earned in one does not transfer to the other.

The wider sibling set on the CommunityVotes and best-of side of the state includes Best of 425 on the Eastside, Cascade's Best, Best of Clark County in the southwest, Best of Western Washington from King5, and Best of the Best Northwest Readers' Choice from Seattle Medium. What distinguishes the Everett program is its host: it is the only one of these run on the CommunityVotes platform through a local partner rather than by a media company, and its domain is dedicated to the Everett market alone.

Scope is what sets the Everett ballot apart for anyone voting in it. CommunityVotes Everett covers a single city's business community, so the nominee pool is local and the competition is among Everett businesses, while the statewide and regional ballots draw from much larger areas. For an Everett business deciding where to focus a customer push, the city ballot is the one where every vote comes from its own customer base.

Strengthening support for an Everett nominee

Because this is a city-scoped ballot, every vote an Everett business earns comes from people who can realistically visit, order or hire, so the most effective push is a direct customer ask during the voting period. The 2026 cycle gave a clear deadline to work toward, Sunday, August 2 at 11:59 pm, and the nomination phase before voting is the moment to make sure the business is listed under the right category at all.

The organizer's own pages do not print a rule on outside help, purchased votes or voting software for this market, so a business that wants to stay clearly inside the rules should follow whatever the live ballot instructs and rely on genuine customer outreach. The campaign does sell promotional placement to businesses directly, through the Promote Your Business offer on the site with limited spots, which is the organizer's own paid channel.

For a wider view of tactics that work on community ballots of this shape, see how to get more votes online, and for the service side, buy award votes explains what vote support packages look like for award-style contests.