# 500 Internal Server Error when voting on a poll

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-internal-server-error-when-voting-on-a-poll/213480>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [December 30, 2021, 9:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-internal-server-error-when-voting-on-a-poll/213480 "2021-12-30T21:42:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 8:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-internal-server-error-when-voting-on-a-poll/213480/7 "2022-01-05T08:23:42Z")

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The error message for the test poll above is now

`param is missing or the value is empty: options Did you mean? action post_id controller poll_name`

which is a really confusing error.

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