# Issues with CIVS: "The poll ends ."

**URL:** <https://community.jenkins.io/t/issues-with-civs-the-poll-ends/789>\
**Category:** Community\
**Tags:** election\
**Created:** [November 11, 2021, 10:55pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/issues-with-civs-the-poll-ends/789 "2021-11-11T22:55:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![saper](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.jenkins.io/saper/32/138_2.png) [@saper](https://community.jenkins.io/u/saper)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2021, 10:55pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/issues-with-civs-the-poll-ends/789/1 "2021-11-11T22:55:28Z")

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Hello, I am using CIVS for a first time and noticed two things:

1. After activation I got a strange error **Unexpected error:** _Internal error saving opt-out information (open)_ - reported upstream [First time user: Unexpected error: Internal error saving opt-out information (open) · Issue #52 · andrewcmyers/civs · GitHub](https://github.com/andrewcmyers/civs/issues/52) (couldn’t find a better place to do that… is there any?)

2. Both polls contain the following paragraph:

> Only the single favorite choice will win the poll.  
> The poll ends . The poll supervisor is @olblak . Contact the poll supervisor if you need help.

It says, “The poll ends”, followed by a space and a “dot”. Is poll end date missing there?

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**Author:** ![MarkEWaite](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.jenkins.io/markewaite/32/20_2.png) [@MarkEWaite](https://community.jenkins.io/u/MarkEWaite)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2021, 11:21pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/issues-with-civs-the-poll-ends/789/2 "2021-11-11T23:21:13Z")

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I suspect that indicates that Olivier declared that the poll will end but did not provide a specific date. That may allow him to end the poll once all registered voters have cast their votes.

Per the [timeline](https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2021/09/20/election-period-opened/#key-dates), voting ends November 30, 2021.

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**Author:** ![olblak](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.jenkins.io/olblak/32/3_2.png) [@olblak](https://community.jenkins.io/u/olblak)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 12:46pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/issues-with-civs-the-poll-ends/789/3 "2021-11-12T12:46:07Z")

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Indeed I didn’t specify the date to automaticvally end the poll as I couldn’t guess the date format to use 🕶 so I am planning to close it manually. So I guess `The poll ends .` sounds like an empy variable

Regarding the internal error, unfortunately, I can’t really help 😕

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**Author:** ![saper](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.jenkins.io/saper/32/138_2.png) [@saper](https://community.jenkins.io/u/saper)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 12:48pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/issues-with-civs-the-poll-ends/789/4 "2021-11-12T12:48:15Z")

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Thank you, this was just a tiny confusing thing. I am fine with that.

According to the Github comment regarding the internal error, I should try again but I think it works for me anyway.