# Polls lost data/votes

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/polls-lost-data-votes/38354
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** polls
**Created:** [January 22, 2016, 6:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/polls-lost-data-votes/38354 "2016-01-22T18:53:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![Devanil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/devanil/32/37608_2.png) [@Devanil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Devanil)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2016, 6:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/polls-lost-data-votes/38354/1 "2016-01-22T18:53:47Z")

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I do not know what happened, but the vote in the polls were restarted. For no apparent reason.

This bug has already occurred to someone? The votes back to normal?

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### Author: ![Nathaniel\_Mattocks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nathaniel_mattocks/32/56580_2.png) [@Nathaniel\_Mattocks](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nathaniel_Mattocks)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/polls-lost-data-votes/38354/2 "2016-01-22T18:56:11Z")

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That happened to me once before… A few months ago.

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### Author: ![techAPJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/techapj/32/342990_2.png) [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2016, 7:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/polls-lost-data-votes/38354/3 "2016-01-22T19:10:52Z")

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Are you on latest Discourse version? @zogstrip pushed some fixes last month.

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### Author: ![Devanil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/devanil/32/37608_2.png) [@Devanil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Devanil)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2016, 7:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/polls-lost-data-votes/38354/4 "2016-01-22T19:28:19Z")

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Yes, it is updated. It seems that the votes are lost forever. It was almost 200 votes. I could see polls that had 200 votes, and when a new vote was counted, returned to 1. It’s really frustrating.

There was a peak of accesses before that happens. Can be the root of the bug.

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### Author: ![Devanil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/devanil/32/37608_2.png) [@Devanil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Devanil)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/polls-lost-data-votes/38354/5 "2016-01-23T14:43:55Z")

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Happened again. SeriouslyI highly recommend not using polls. It is very volatile, full of bugs.

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/polls-lost-data-votes/38354/6 "2016-01-23T17:13:51Z")

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Are you running latest version?

Are you using other plugins?

Was the post containing the poll recently updated?

Can I get access to your instance so that I can investigate?

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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2022, 2:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/polls-lost-data-votes/38354/8 "2022-07-22T14:14:47Z")

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