# Category based vote limits

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-based-vote-limits/58486
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** topic-voting
**Created:** [August 17, 2016, 12:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-based-vote-limits/58486 "2016-08-17T00:01:12Z")
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### Author: ![angus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/angus/32/341715_2.png) [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2017, 9:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-based-vote-limits/58486/7 "2017-08-22T09:13:44Z")

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@tobiaseigen Actually, you may be interested in the elections plugin I just completed. It fits your use case quite well. It extends the concept of having one poll per topic. I built it for my own purposes (i.e. I’m going to be actively using it), so I’m keen on ironing out any issues it may have / getting the feature set right.

> [@Elections Plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/elections-plugin/68521):
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> Repo: [GitHub - angusmcleod/discourse-elections · GitHub](https://github.com/angusmcleod/discourse-elections) This uses the Polls plugin as a base and adds controls and features specific to running elections. Enabling and Settings Elections are administered by “Election Admins”. By default, election admins are site admins. All moderators can be made election admins by toggling the elections\_admin\_moderator site setting. To do: allow any user to be designated an ‘Election Admin’. Elections can be enabled on a category basis in Category Setting…

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