# Bug? Can't undo a vote in a non-voting category
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/bug-cant-undo-a-vote-in-a-non-voting-category/111434
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** topic-voting
**Created:** [3월 13, 2019, 12:22오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bug-cant-undo-a-vote-in-a-non-voting-category/111434 "2019-03-13T00:22:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@stromfeldt](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stromfeldt)
#### Post date: [3월 13, 2019, 12:22오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bug-cant-undo-a-vote-in-a-non-voting-category/111434/1 "2019-03-13T00:22:51Z")
For some reason I’ve got a non-voting topic listed in my votes over on the Ghost forum (the fourth “vote” in the image below). It’s possible that the topic used to be a voting topic and got switched away from being so (I don’t recall), which is why I have a vote for it. Either way, I can’t undo my (supposed) vote for it because it can’t be voted for. Am I missing something, or is this in fact a bug?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [3월 13, 2019, 4:32오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bug-cant-undo-a-vote-in-a-non-voting-category/111434/2 "2019-03-13T04:32:02Z")
My guess is that this topic was moved around, @david recently fixed some issues here.
Can you flag your topic and ask moderators on ghost to flick the category back to `Ideas` and then back again to `Themes`? In theory this will clean up the issue.
If this persists let us know here and we can help investigate.
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### Author:  [@tiwane](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tiwane)
#### Post date: [3월 25, 2019, 10:04오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bug-cant-undo-a-vote-in-a-non-voting-category/111434/7 "2019-03-25T22:04:53Z")
Encountering something similar here: [Share observations between users - Feature Requests - iNaturalist Community Forum](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observations-shared-between-users/337) It was in our Feature Requests category and had 22 votes, and I moved to to General, a non-voting category. No votes were returned to anyone, as far as I can tell. Tried closing and unclosing the topic while it was in General but that didn’t work, and I also moved it back to Feature Requests then back to General but no dice.
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [4월 15, 2019, 3:04오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bug-cant-undo-a-vote-in-a-non-voting-category/111434/8 "2019-04-15T15:04:48Z")
@tiwane when you move/close a topic, the votes are still stored in the database. How dd you determine whether the votes had been returned?
@stromfeldt did you manage to resolve the issue you were seeing on the Ghost forum?
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### Author:  [@tiwane](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tiwane)
#### Post date: [5월 14, 2019, 3:42오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bug-cant-undo-a-vote-in-a-non-voting-category/111434/9 "2019-05-14T03:42:09Z")
By looking at the users’ profiles and going to the Votes section of their activity tab. EG, I just moved a topic from Feature Requests to General (['Pronunciation' feature for taxonomic names - Feature Requests - iNaturalist Community Forum](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/pronunciation-feature-for-taxonomic-names/3049)) but the two users who originally voted for it still have it on their profile, eg [Profile - agnes\_clamfanger - iNaturalist Community Forum](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/agnes_clamfanger/activity/votes)
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [7월 18, 2019, 4:14오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bug-cant-undo-a-vote-in-a-non-voting-category/111434/11 "2019-07-18T16:14:03Z")
A few improvements have been applied to the voting plugin recently, the most recent of which is
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse-voting/commit/fd5c6d91f925fbfb6953ac4bd55cc4fb17e2e518](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-voting/commit/fd5c6d91f925fbfb6953ac4bd55cc4fb17e2e518)
That should resolve the “can’t undo” votes issue for topics in non-voting categories
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [8월 1, 2019, 5:00오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bug-cant-undo-a-vote-in-a-non-voting-category/111434/12 "2019-08-01T17:00:02Z")
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [1월 5, 2021, 11:10오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bug-cant-undo-a-vote-in-a-non-voting-category/111434/13 "2021-01-05T23:10:39Z")
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### Author:  [@stromfeldt](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stromfeldt)
#### Post date: [1월 5, 2021, 11:19오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bug-cant-undo-a-vote-in-a-non-voting-category/111434/14 "2021-01-05T23:19:48Z")
늦게 답변드려 죄송합니다. 그런데 비투표 카테고리에서 제가 남긴 투표가 아직 남아 있는 걸 방금 발견했습니다(사라진 줄 알았는데, 제 기억이 틀렸을 수도 있겠네요):
이 문제를 해결하기 위해 Ghost 포럼 관리자가 조치를 취해야 하는지, 혹은 플러그인 업데이트가 필요한 상황일 수도 있는지 확인해 주실 수 있을까요?
다시 한번 감사합니다.