Treasure Coast Community's Choice Awards: How Voting Works & How to Win

Four confirmed editions on the Treasure Coast, and what's actually printed

2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026: four confirmed editions make up the Treasure Coast Community's Choice Awards, organized by TCPalm.com on the Second Street platform. The most recent voting window ran May 15 through May 30, 2026, at tcpalm.gannettcontests.com, and has since closed.

Across those four editions, the earliest date this ballot's history confirms is December 5, 2023; the latest is May 30, 2026, the close of the most recent voting window. Neither the category list nor a voting ceiling is printed there; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. A run this long says something on its own: whatever changes year to year in a ballot's exact opening date, TCPalm.com has kept the Treasure Coast Community's Choice Awards active across four separate cycles rather than letting it lapse after a single try.

One ballot, three addresses: nominations, voting, winners

Recent editions of this program are not confirmed at a single web address. Alongside the main ballot page, a separate nominations address and a separate winners address exist for 2024, 2025 and 2026, each tracked on tcpalm.gannettcontests.com under its own year-specific name.

That three-part structure is worth knowing before searching blind: whichever stage a Treasure Coast business is looking for, nominating, voting or checking results, has its own confirmed page rather than one shared address covering all three. Landing on the wrong one wastes a click during a window that, for 2026, lasted only from May 15 to May 30.

Why the plain program name isn't a safe shortcut

Typing "Treasure Coast readers choice" into a search bar risks landing on an outdated listing, a different regional publisher's page, or one of Florida's several other best-of ballots before it reaches tcpalm.gannettcontests.com. Going straight to that address, and its year-specific nominations and winners pages, avoids that guesswork entirely.

A Treasure Coast ballot among Florida's separately run "best of" polls

Florida runs several readers'-choice ballots that share nothing with TCPalm.com's own results. Best of Florida Awards runs statewide, kept by a publisher of its own; CommunityVotes Boynton Beach answers to the separate CommunityVotes network; Best of Miami Readers' Poll, Best of Orlando, Best of Tallahassee and Best of the Bay each keep their own judging tied to their own metro.

Winning attention on any of those five carries no bearing on where the Treasure Coast ballot's own results land, since each keeps a separate results page and a separate publisher behind it. Treating all of them as one push rather than five unrelated efforts is the mistake to avoid; a business active on several is simply running separate campaigns that merely happen to touch nearby regions.

What sets TCPalm.com's own program apart is simply its four-edition run: a longer confirmed history than several of Florida's newer ballots can currently show, even without a published category list to go along with it.

Building support across four editions, not just one window

A four-edition history gives a Treasure Coast business more to reference than a first-year ballot would, even without a category breakdown to check an entry against. Submitting under the exact public name customers already recognize, then letting the live ballot sort placement, still beats guessing at rules the page has never printed. Checking the correct year-specific address first matters here too, given how the ballot, the nominations page and the winners page all live at separate confirmed addresses rather than one shared page.

Outreach that works here looks the same as it would on any confirmed multi-year ballot: real supporters, contacted more than once across the May 15 to May 30 stretch rather than in one late rush. A program with four confirmed editions behind it can absorb ordinary variation in turnout, but activity that reads as automated or fake still puts the whole entry at risk regardless of how long the ballot has run.

A nomination, or even a strong tally through May 30, settles nothing on its own; TCPalm.com alone confirms a result once judging closes. Understanding that boundary before spending real budget is exactly what is buying votes legal sets out. Buying votes online breaks down what paid outside help generally covers for a ballot with a separate nominations and winners page like this one, and award-vote campaign planning maps onto a readers'-choice structure built the same way.