SANDPOINT — You only have a few more days to have your say on who’s the Best of Bonner County.

Polls are currently open but are scheduled to end at 11:59 p.m. Sunday.

Winners will be notified the first week of July, and the general public will be told loud and clear July 27 in a special edition of the Bonner County Daily Bee.

“We are thrilled to have had so many participants in this year’s contest,” said Terry Rollman, Daily Bee general manager. “This is a great representation of the community’s preferences. Kudos to those businesses and professionals for making such a positive impact on our their customers,” said Rollman. “This is truly the result of the peoples’ picking their favorites.”

Rollman said that in the past, attempts to stack the ballot couldn’t always be detected or eradicated. The Best of Bonner County competition now employs new technology and a new process to weed out ballot-stacking attempts.

According to Rollman, voters going to bonnercountydailybee.com/bestof will see up to five nominations in each of 109 different categories. Because the software accurately tracks email addresses — clearing cache or history won’t wipe the slate clean — voters can vote for just one nominee in each category.

“One email address,” Rollman said, “one vote.”

She noted that voters can leave the site at any time during the voting period and come back and vote some more, but not on any categories they’ve already voted on.

“This is a way for winning businesses to speak to their loyal customers and newcomers alike, people who are all looking for the best of the best,” she said.

To vote, go to: bonnercountydailybee.com/bestof