# Poll won't work?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-wont-work/198361
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 27, 2021, 8:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-wont-work/198361 "2021-07-27T20:52:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Neoslayer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Neoslayer)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2021, 8:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-wont-work/198361/1 "2021-07-27T20:52:15Z")
When I build a poll, and press the settings button to have more options like allowing me to see who voted, it doesn’t let me, and says this instead.
What am I doing wrong?
As you can see there’s plenty of options and they show up normally in the preview
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### Author:  [@cocococosti](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cocococosti)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2021, 10:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-wont-work/198361/2 "2021-07-27T22:27:39Z")
Your poll options look good 🤔 And I just tested it in my site and the feature is working correctly.
What happens if you try to create the poll manually using markdown?
For example:
```plaintext
[poll type=multiple results=always min=1 max=3 public=true chartType=bar groups=Discourse,Test]
# My amazing multi choice poll
* Option1
* Option 2
* Option 3
[/poll]
```
More options here: [Creating and managing polls](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-create-polls/77548)
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2021, 4:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-wont-work/198361/3 "2021-07-28T16:19:56Z")
> [@Neoslayer](#):
>
> What am I doing wrong?
The “Poll must have different options” error message is displayed if you have added the same option twice in a poll. For example, if your poll had two entries for “Great friend”, the error message would be displayed.
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### Author:  [@Neoslayer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Neoslayer)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2021, 5:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-wont-work/198361/4 "2021-07-28T17:47:25Z")
yeah, this was it, thank you 🙂
I pasted the same option without realizing
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2021, 5:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-wont-work/198361/5 "2021-07-28T17:51:14Z")
The reason I knew the answer is because I recently helped someone with a similar issue. In that case, we were both confused by the meaning of the error message. I wonder if the error message could be improved to make it more obvious what the cause of the issue is?
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### Author:  [@Neoslayer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Neoslayer)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2021, 5:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-wont-work/198361/6 "2021-07-28T17:52:38Z")
Yeah, it’d be nice if it said “duplicate option exists” or something.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2021, 5:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-wont-work/198361/7 "2021-08-27T17:52:49Z")
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