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<h2>Welcome to CityBeat's 29th Annual Best of Cincinnati&reg; Readers Poll!</h2>
Your votes will determine the area's best Eats, Shops &amp; Services, Music &amp; Nightlife, Arts &amp; Culture, Sports &amp; Recreation and City Life.&nbsp;Here are the basic rules:&nbsp;You don't have to vote in every individual category, but you must vote in at least 20 for your ballot to count.&nbsp;Voting starts Monday, Dec. 16, and will run through midnight on Jan. 26. You can vote once per day. Voting is simple. Start your ballot by selecting "Start voting now" from the main landing page or from any specific section or category. You will then be prompted to register. The ballot is pre-populated with top vote-getters from last year, but we accept write-in votes in every category. New categories or categories that change each year (Best Museum Exhibit or Best New Restaurant, for example) will not be pre-populated. Write-ins won't be immediately added to the options, but we will add any that garner a significant number of votes. Regardless, all write-in votes count toward determining the category winners.
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Again - you can vote in each category, but it is not required. However you must vote for 20 categories at minumum for your vote to be valid.&nbsp; You can click on the "skip" button to skip a category, or the up/down arrows in the bottom right-hand corner to move to another category. If you want to exit back to the main Eats, Shops &amp; Services, Music &amp; Nightlife, Arts &amp; Culture, Sports &amp; Recreation or City Life section, click the name in the top left corner.
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Ballot stuffing &mdash; i.e., mass nominations and voting from identical IP addresses is stritcly prohibited. Cincinnati CityBeat reserves the right to disregard any write in or vote we feel was not submitted within the spirit of the competition. Ballots will be monitored for abuses, ballot stuffing etc.&nbsp;
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Winners will be announced in our April 2025 Best of Cincinnati&reg; Magazine.
Note:&nbsp;Cincinnati CityBeat&nbsp;owns all copyright, including Best of Cincinnati&reg; awards, images and other intellectual property rights in materials that are created by Cincinnati CityBeat for our advertisers. Reproduction of those materials without our expressed consent is a violation of copyright law.
All Best of Cincinnati&reg;images must include the &ldquo;Vote for Us&rdquo;, Me or VOTE verbiage; use of the blank contest logo is prohibited.&nbsp;
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Are you listed in a category? <a title="Best of Cincinnati&reg; VOTE Assets " href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13Sfwx8Qz4bE7P1kr_Jyl9Vu4QaOUJxAY?usp=drive_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Download a "VOTE" sticker to share on social media</a>.
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<h4>View previous Best Of issues: <a href="https://citybeat.com/best-of/2024">2024</a> | <a href="https://www.citybeat.com/best-of/2023">2023</a> |&nbsp;<a href="https://www.citybeat.com/best-of/2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2022</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.citybeat.com/best-of/2021" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.citybeat.com/best-of/2021&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1672341289493000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2LYWwaaZefzXQ5x7pcXDh8">2021</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.citybeat.com/best-of/2020" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.citybeat.com/best-of/2020&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1672341289493000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0cxRWWn8sZ3-VPCWmk7331">2020</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.citybeat.com/best-of/2019" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.citybeat.com/best-of/2019&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1672341289493000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0Yiw-tqkJ7OG2dVgVzdPHP">2019</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.citybeat.com/best-of/2018" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.citybeat.com/best-of/2018&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1672341289493000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1i4yZuv0WzYS_9aVJkTD25">2018</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.citybeat.com/best-of/2017" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.citybeat.com/best-of/2017&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1672341289493000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1UJ2Nj9I6SdD3yAx13Iroz">2017</a></h4>
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