For Your Favorite Chris Ledoux Albums Decade By Decade Poll: How Voting Works & How to Win

The gap a LeDoux fan actually faces

Chris LeDoux fans in Wyoming who want to vote for a favorite album run into an unusual problem: KWYY asks the question but publishes almost nothing else. The ballot page, titled Vote for Your Favorite Chris LeDoux Albums Decade by Decade, carries a short station explanation, that there are so many albums the station decided to break the question down decade by decade, and then the voting form itself. No day-level dates, no rules block, no prize description sit beside it.

That silence is the gap this page exists to fill honestly. What can be stated from the station's own material: the organizer is KWYY, the Wyoming country station branded My Country 95.5, publishing at mycountry955.com under Townsquare Media. The ballot runs on KWYY's own website rather than through an outside voting service, at the decade-by-decade address on mycountry955.com. January is the month with the strongest dating evidence, tied to the 2018 page.

What cannot be stated: the exact day a cycle opens and the day it closes, the specific decade blocks and album lists shown on the form, whether one person may vote once or daily, and whether any prize attaches to the winning album. None of those facts appear in the station's printed material. The live form is the only source for each of them, which is why every planning decision below starts there.

The dated history: six editions and a gap

The ballot's history is the best-documented part of this program. Editions surface in 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026, six years in total. The 2018 page carries the only precise date in this history: published January 26, 2018, with a Townsquare Media credit alongside the writer's name. That January anchor is the reason the program is treated as a new-year feature rather than a summer promotion.

The year list also carries a caution. After two consecutive early editions, KWYY let the ballot sit from 2020 through 2022 before reviving it in 2023 and running it four years straight. A program with a three-year gap in its history is one a supporter should never assume will return on schedule. The station has never announced a season calendar for it, and none of its printed pages promises a 2027 edition.

What the history does not hold is equally concrete. No close date for any edition is printed. No round structure exists, since the ballot runs on the station's own site with no platform round dates attached. And the station has never stated how long a voting window stays open, whether the January evidence reflects the whole window or just the launch. Each of those gaps resolves only when the station reopens the page and dates it itself.

How a supporter votes today

Voting here is a deliberately simple act. The supporter opens the decade-by-decade page on mycountry955.com, reads the station's one-line framing, that the catalog is large enough to warrant splitting the question across decades, and then marks a favorite within the decade block covering the album they want to back. The form sits on the page itself, so the entire act of voting happens on the station's domain with no account, login or third-party platform step in between.

Everything a supporter needs to know is therefore on the live form. If KWYY limits one vote per person, the form will enforce or state it there. If repeat voting is allowed, a return visit will reveal that too. Because the station publishes no rules text elsewhere, the form's own behavior is the only honest source of a per-person rule, and it can differ between editions without notice.

Timing follows the same logic. January is the month to watch, given the 2018 anchor, but the day-level window is not published in advance. A supporter who cares about a specific album should check the page early in the month, cast a vote if the form is live, and read any closing note the station prints beside it. Planning around an assumed deadline this ballot has never stated is how support gets wasted on a form that closed the week before.

Where this ballot sits among Wyoming votes

This program is an outlier among Wyoming public votes in three ways. First, its subject is an artist's catalog, not businesses or local venues, which puts it closer to a music fandom feature than to a reader's choice contest. Second, its host is the organizer's own site, whereas most ballots in the state run on dedicated voting platforms. Third, its sponsor is a radio station speaking to its own audience, so the pool of voters is LeDoux fans and country listeners rather than a general consumer public.

The neighbors it gets grouped with are the state's best-of programs, which answer a different question entirely. Best of Wyoming and the Casper Star-Tribune Best of Wyoming rank businesses statewide. Cap City's Best in Cheyenne, CommunityVotes Cheyenne, and County 17's Best in Gillette serve individual markets, and Best of Jackson Hole covers the resort valley. A business cannot substitute a LeDoux album vote for any of them, and none of their rules transfer to this ballot.

For a Chris LeDoux supporter, that distinction is good news: the vote is about music loyalty, the competition is decades of a beloved catalog, and the only rules that apply are whatever KWYY's own form prints this cycle.

Strengthening support in this ballot

Because the mechanic is a plain on-page fan vote with no published per-person rule, effective support in this program looks like audience mobilization rather than timing games. Share the decade-by-decade address directly with LeDoux fan groups, Wyoming country music communities, and anyone who grew up on the station. Ask each person to pick their genuine favorite; a split decade block rewards broad, sincere turnout more than coordinated repetition, especially when nobody can state how the form counts repeat submissions.

On outside help: KWYY publishes no rule on purchased or automated votes for this ballot, and no prize is documented on the page, which changes the calculation compared with cash-prize contests. The station retains the obvious power to discard votes it considers suspect, and silence in advance is not protection after the fact. Anyone weighing that route should read the general guidance at buy award votes and the legal framing at is buying votes legal before deciding, and should judge the risk against a contest whose only reward is bragging rights for a favorite album.