Now Yakimas Favorite Tattoo Artist Top Four List (mega993online): How Voting Works & How to Win

A radio station's tattoo ballot, not a chamber best-of

Most of the state's public-vote ballots tracked on this site belong to chambers of commerce or regional publishers, and they cover dozens of business categories across a county or a metro. This one is narrower. Yakimas Favorite Tattoo Artist Top Four List is a single-category vote run by KMGW, a radio station whose web home is mega993online.com, and it asks one question about one trade: which tattoo artist is Yakima's favorite.

The host matters here. Unlike ballots built on an outside balloting platform, this vote sits on mega993online.com directly, on a vote-now page under KMGW's own web address. That means the station controls the page design, the nominee display and any repeat-vote behavior itself, with no platform terms layered on top. A supporter who wants to understand the rules has exactly one document to read, the ballot page itself.

The market is Yakima, Washington, and the audience is the station's listening area. The title's Top Four List wording signals a shortlist format, though the page does not spell out how the four finalists were selected. For a shop in the running, the ballot is less crowded than a multi-category city poll; for a supporter, it is a two-minute task. The table below collects the confirmed details.

Edition years and the November deadline

The station's confirmed editions ran in 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. That run history shows a program that ran twice at the end of the 2010s, went quiet, and has since settled into a yearly rhythm. The most recent confirmed run is 2026, with 2027 as the expected next cycle, though the station has demonstrated before that an annual pattern can break.

Within a cycle, the dated facts are specific. The station's voting page states that voting ends Thursday, Nov. 8 at midnight, and that Yakima's Favorite Tattoo Artist will be announced on Friday, Nov. 9. The announcement landing the morning after the close is a fast turnaround by best-of standards, where many organizers take weeks to publish results. The window sits in November, with the start and end months both falling in that month.

What the station has not put on the page is equally concrete. The ballot prints no opening date for the current cycle, no full category list beyond the tattoo artist title, no per-supporter vote cap and no eligibility text. Whether further rounds follow the public vote also goes unstated; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How a supporter votes today

The mechanic is the simplest kind this site covers. A supporter opens the station's vote-now page for Yakima's Favorite Tattoo Artist Top Four List, finds the current nominee display, picks a favorite and submits. The station's own call to action is three words long: vote for your fave now. No outside balloting service sits in the path, no separate registration portal exists and no round structure is printed on the page.

Because the vote lives on mega993online.com, everything a supporter needs to know sits in one place. The deadline notice, that voting ends Thursday, Nov. 8 at midnight, appears alongside the prompt itself, so a person arriving on the page sees the cut-off before they vote. The winner announcement the next day, Friday, Nov. 9, closes the loop quickly.

The page does not print instructions about daily voting, logins or verification, which means a supporter's experience is governed by whatever the live form does at submission time. If the ballot accepts repeat visits, the page will show it; if it blocks a second vote, it will show that instead. The nominee roster shown on the page in the current cycle is the authoritative list, and the station refreshes it each edition, so last cycle's four names are not a safe assumption for this one.

Where this ballot sits among the state's best-of programs

This page's sibling ballots across Washington illustrate the contrast well. Best of Western Washington from KING5 sweeps an entire television market with a broad category grid. Best of Clark County from The Columbian and Best of Snohomish County from the Everett Herald are newspaper ballots anchored to their counties. Best of the Best Northwest Readers' Choice from Seattle Medium serves a readership audience, while Best of 425 and Cascade's Best cover the Puget Sound side of the Cascades.

Against that field, the KMGW ballot is the outlier in three ways. It covers a single business category instead of dozens. Its host is in-house at the radio station rather than a dedicated balloting service. And its geographic focus is Yakima, on the eastern side of the state, where none of the six siblings publish a ballot. A tattoo shop in Yakima has no overlapping program to split attention with; its local audience votes here or nowhere.

That singularity cuts both ways. The vote total pool is smaller than a metro-wide ballot's, but every vote carries more relative weight, and the radio audience gives nominees a promotional channel most county ballots cannot. For a shop weighing where to spend outreach effort in November, the calculus favors concentrated local asks over broad regional pushes.

Strengthening support for a Yakima tattoo shop

This ballot rewards exactly one behavior: getting Yakima customers to the mega993online.com vote page before Thursday, Nov. 8 at midnight. The most direct tactic a shop controls is the in-person ask. A customer already happy with finished work is the strongest voter a tattoo studio has, and the ask costs nothing but a sentence at checkout, plus the voting address on a receipt or a counter sign.

Timing matters more here than on long multi-round ballots, because the station announces results on Friday, Nov. 9, one day after the close. There is no second round to campaign for, so outreach that lands in the final week of the window has the same value as outreach that lands early, while a customer reminded the day before the deadline is the most likely to actually vote.

The station publishes no stated rules on outside help, repeat voting or vote sources for this program. That silence means a shop's safe course is to drive genuine customer participation and read the live form's behavior rather than assume any rule either way. Our service overview explains what purchased support is in general terms, and the legal page linked above covers the position on paid votes for public ballots.