# Consequences of editing post containing poll

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [August 2, 2022, 8:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/consequences-of-editing-post-containing-poll/234884 "2022-08-02T20:00:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jonathan5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jonathan5/32/197134_2.png) [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 8:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/consequences-of-editing-post-containing-poll/234884/1 "2022-08-02T20:00:17Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [How to Create Polls](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-create-polls/77548):

> [@Creating and managing polls](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-and-managing-polls/77548/1):
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> **Can polls be edited?**  
> All votes are cleared when a poll is edited, to ensure the poll creator can’t change the choices a user voted for. As such, by default polls can only be edited for 5 minutes after being created.

What is it that triggers the clearing of a poll?

Is it just editing the `[poll]` tags and anything between them?

Or would editing any other part of a post that contains a poll also clear the poll?

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