Rules & Voting Procedures

1. To get started, please visit lansingcitypulse.com and click on the banner at the top of the home page. That takes you to the contest’s homepage, where you can register or sign back in. Clicking any of the category groups below will also give you prompts to sign in or register. New registrants will be sent an email with a link you must click to confirm your registration.
2. Next, begin voting! Please note that all votes are submitted automatically. Once you've cast them, you're done. Don't worry about a second submission screen.
3. If you need to stop and come back to your ballot, or your internet browser closed, you can return to the site and continue voting exactly where you left off. You can always log out of your voting session and, when you are ready to resume voting, log back in and get back to the contest.
4. As always, you can vote in as many (or as few) categories as you wish, but please remember to finish your ballot before 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1. That should give you plenty of time to make even the most gut-wrenching of decisions!
5.  The Top 5 vote-getters in each category will advance to the second round, which will be announced on Oct. 16. You will then have two more weeks to vote for the Top 3, which will be announced in our Nov. 13 issue.
6.  If you are the first one to nominate a business, please be patient. It will be submitted to an approval process so we can verify it is in the right category, spelled correctly, etc., so it may not show up immediately. If you do not see it after 24 hours, please contact Steve Underwood at (517) 999-6704 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on weekdays or steve@lansingcitypulse.com.
7. Also, when you vote or nominate, you have an opportunity to comment. Please do so! We may want to use those comments in the next round when the Top 5 nominees are winnowed down to the winner and second- and third-place finishers.
8. If need be, you can also send us your list of votes via snail mail to Steve Underwood at City Pulse, 1905 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing, MI 48912.
9. Everyone who votes in EVERY category, in each round, will be entered in a drawing to win prizes from some of our winners!
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