Right now the poll will only let one anonymous user vote and that is it.
the poll has to be reset in order for another anonymous user to vote.
if you are a user signed in there is no problem it is just with anonymous users.

thanks

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jaydub commented

When additional anonymous voters are attempting to vote are they for sure from different IP addresses?

I am able to vote from different machines as an anonymous user as long as the IP address is different.

It is a limitation currently to only rely upon IP address as a test of whether or not an anonymous voter has voted. For example if you had a number of people from inside an office trying to vote on a poll on an external website, it's likely that all requests from that office would be coming from a single IP...

A possible future enhancement then would be to store IP address and the session ID (pretty much the cookie approach you mention).

But before going there, can you verify that in fact you still have problems with this issue?

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dmwirth commented

I am having this same problem. I tired to vote on a sample poll from three different computers in my home network and could only vote once. so it seems that from a single network there is only one anonymous vote counted.

jaydub’s picture

jaydub commented

ok next question is have you applied all the patches that have been posted and commited in the last month or so?

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ghostman-1 commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Thanks jaydub but the new patchs did not help.

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ghostman-1 commented
Status: Fixed » Active

Update on Problem: i have found that after 4 votes the poll will not allow anymore votes.
And if you select unlimited duration for the poll time only one vote can be submitted then it will not allow anymore votes.

jaydub’s picture

jaydub commented

It's a bit hard to diagnose your problem because there's no way to know whether
or not your votes whether 1 or 4 or more votes are coming from unique IP addresses.

Would you be able to run more tests and respond to this issue here with all of the
specifics of the test including for each vote:

1) the IP address of the machine where you were submitting a vote
2) the contents of the pollfield and pollfield_votes table for the node
in question

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ghostman-1 commented

Hey jaydub

(1) my ip address changes daily

(2) 4.225.94.216/ Iliked the site ( this is one oof the questions in the poll)

(3) but twice now someone has voted and it has stoped allowing voting.
The first ip address 24.210.59.248 and the second 24.26.147.252.

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ghostman-1 commented
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)
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ghostman-1 commented

does any one else have an idea of what could help and can a cookie patch be made?

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meidy308 commented

I am using Drupal 6.2 and having this same problem

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trentmu commented
Version: 5.x-1.1 » 5.x-1.6

I have the exact same problem. My 'poll' module when on unlimited mode and allowing everyone to vote (including anonymous) only accepted a total of 4 votes. It stopped accepting votes and only shows the results. I have it placed in the left side block.

Anyone know of a fix?

And I just notice at the breadcrumbs on this page that this is called 'pollfield'? Is that the official development name for 'poll' module that comes with the core- or are talking about different things?

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trentmu commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Active

Anyone have any update on this- why a poll sticks at 4 anonymous votes?

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mario_prkos commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

solved in version for D6