Make your voice heard in the annual Mountain Xpress reader poll — by voting online here — and help decide who takes home the proverbial blue ribbon for helping make life in WNC wonderful. Voting began Aug. 20 and ends Sept. 12.
To vote, follow the simple but important instructions on the official voting site. And once you’ve cast your votes, be sure to look for and respond to a confirmation e-mail that will validate your ballot.
The choice is yours. The time is now. Vote!
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Is there only online voting? Didn’t you used to do only mail-in voting, and if so did you have to print an extra big print run for the voting issue?
(It’s something that bothered me back in the day – now with online voting that’s changed)
Yes, Zen, the only way to vote in Best of WNC 2008 is online. We’ve made the switch away from paper balloting the past couple of years to cut down on ballot stuffing and make it easier to tally the tide of votes that will be coming in.
Back when we had print ballots, there was no need to print extra copies. We just published the ballots in a few issues of the paper.