# Large poll bug - users cannot amend votes on open polls
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/large-poll-bug-users-cannot-amend-votes-on-open-polls/405511
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [June 17, 2026, 3:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/large-poll-bug-users-cannot-amend-votes-on-open-polls/405511 "2026-06-17T15:10:09Z")
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### Author:  [@Octobadger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Octobadger)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2026, 3:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/large-poll-bug-users-cannot-amend-votes-on-open-polls/405511/1 "2026-06-17T15:10:09Z")
A bug has been observed on [https://community.drownedinsound.com](https://community.drownedinsound.com) where a weekly poll of new music releases (which can have 50-100 items in the poll and no limit to how any can be chosen) is run allowing users to vote for any releases they enjoyed, and these polls are not closed, meaning users could go back and amend their votes later, e.g. if they had now listened to another album released that week and enjoyed it.
In the past couple of months, it has been observed both on mobile and desktop browser that clicking the.
For example, voting in this poll, opened last Thursday, with a new user, after voting I see the results, with a [\< Vote] button allowing me to return to the vote:
Clicking the button however just kicks me to the very bottom of the browser screen, and scrolling up I still have the same view of the results and the same button. This occurs in any browser I have tested.
This problem doesn’t seem to occur on small polls - appears to be limited to polls with high number of options (which affects a popular weekly poll on the site afected). There is more discussion [here](https://community.drownedinsound.com/t/cannot-change-votes-in-polls-with-a-large-number-of-options/94656/2).
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### Author:  [@1101010](https://meta.discourse.org/u/1101010)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2026, 3:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/large-poll-bug-users-cannot-amend-votes-on-open-polls/405511/2 "2026-06-17T15:52:28Z")
This is definitely as a result of the fairly recent upgrade.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2026, 9:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/large-poll-bug-users-cannot-amend-votes-on-open-polls/405511/4 "2026-06-17T21:12:06Z")
Thanks for the report @Octobadger - I have a fix brewing for part of the issue
> [@Octobadger](#):
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> I still have the same view of the results and the same button
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/41001](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/41001)
Working on the other (and much harder) part
> [@Octobadger](#):
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> Clicking the button however just kicks me to the very bottom of the browser screen
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2026, 9:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/large-poll-bug-users-cannot-amend-votes-on-open-polls/405511/5 "2026-06-18T09:04:02Z")
Part 2 is also done ✅
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> Previously, clicking the button that toggles a large poll between its results an…d the ballot scroll-jumped the page far down — often to the bottom — leaving the poll off-screen and the vote seemingly impossible to amend (the browser's native scroll anchoring loses its anchor node when the toggle removes the results table the user is scrolled into).
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> This change pins the poll's button row and restores its viewport position with \`window.scrollBy\` after the swap, so the poll stays exactly where the user was looking when switching between results and voting.
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> Meta: https://meta.discourse.org/t/large-poll-bug-users-cannot-amend-votes-on-open-polls/405511
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2026, 2:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/large-poll-bug-users-cannot-amend-votes-on-open-polls/405511/6 "2026-06-29T14:23:33Z")