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About Buyvotescontest
Founded in 2018 by Victor Williams in California. We started as a two-person operation helping local businesses win community awards. Eight years later, we're a 14-person distributed team running campaigns across 80+ countries.
We don't take political work. We don't take government contracts. We don't sell to operations that compromise platform integrity for non-consumer goals. Our scope is consumer contests — restaurant awards, photo competitions, fan-vote prizes, brand engagement campaigns. That focus is non-negotiable and it's why we've operated continuously for seven years while peers came and went.
Unique residential IP per vote — Doodle's primary repeat-vote signal on open polls
Fresh browser sessions with cleared cookies for each participant entry
Natural participant names and pacing so the grid fills like genuine responses
Country and language targeting on request for region-specific decision polls
Handles both classic date-grid polls and Doodle's text-option preference polls
Founder-managed fulfilment for every launch-tier order with manual poll review within 60 minutes
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About Buy Doodle Votes
Doodle is the widely used scheduling and group-decision poll tool that lets an organiser propose options — dates, times, or named choices — and invite anyone with the link to tick the ones they prefer. It started as a meeting-scheduling utility, but its open, no-sign-in poll format made it a natural fit for lightweight group decisions of every kind: which venue, which design, which name, which event date. Because anyone with the participant link can add a row in seconds without registering, organisers increasingly reach for Doodle whenever they want a quick, frictionless vote, and that includes audience-choice and people's-choice ballots that look a lot like contests.
Our Doodle vote service exists because those decision polls increasingly carry real stakes. A design studio asking its audience to pick the winning logo, a community group voting on which event to fund, a brand letting customers choose the next product variant, a creator running a fan vote on which project to pursue next — each uses a Doodle poll as the ballot, and the option that leads the grid wins the decision. We deliver real residential-IP participant entries on both date-grid and text-option Doodle polls at $0.06 to $0.08 each, paced naturally with natural participant names, and with founder-managed fulfilment for our launch-tier rollout.
Why Buy Doodle Votes matter for your contest
Doodle votes matter because the platform's open-poll format is deliberately frictionless — no account, no verification, just a name and a set of ticks. That openness is what makes Doodle convenient for organisers, but it also means the grid moves fast for whoever mobilises the most participants, and a participant relying on organic turnout alone is exposed to anyone with a larger network or a budget filling the grid first.
The stakes cluster into recurring situations. First, audience-choice decisions where a brand or creator lets their community pick among options and intends to act on the result — the winning option drives a real launch, design, or event, so leading the grid is the whole game. Second, community and people's-choice ballots run on Doodle by groups who like its simplicity, where the winner earns funding, recognition, or a feature. Third, competitive head-to-head votes — logo A versus logo B, venue 1 versus venue 2 — where a narrow organic lead can flip with a single coordinated push from the other side.
Because Doodle grids are public and the tallies visible, the participation baseline on a contested poll rises quickly once one side starts mobilising. A participant working only their immediate circle rarely fills enough rows fast enough to hold a lead through the deadline. Our service gives any organiser or participant access to the same entry-volume advantage that better-resourced competitors already use, at the lowest unit price in the market for real, residential-IP delivery on Doodle, with natural participant names that keep the grid looking organic.
How we deliver Buy Doodle Votes
Delivery follows a four-stage workflow tuned for Doodle's open-poll format. Stage one is manual poll review — within 60 minutes of payment confirmation, the founder opens your participant link, sees whether it is a date-grid or text-option poll, identifies the option that should lead, and confirms the poll is open and accepting new participant rows. Any incompatibility — a closed poll, a sign-in-restricted configuration, or a private scheduling poll outside scope — surfaces here, before delivery begins.
Stage two is profile-and-pool assignment. Based on the targeting identified in stage one, our system reserves a pool of fresh browser sessions with the right IP geography and a set of natural, locale-appropriate participant names in varied formats, plus the selection distribution you specified.
Stage three is paced dispatch. Our pacing engine adds participant rows on a natural response curve — a slow initial climb, acceleration during the target audience's active hours, and a smooth taper before delivery closes. Entry intervals randomise between 40 seconds and 9 minutes per row, with selections varied so the grid shows a realistic majority preference rather than a block of identical rows appearing at once.
Stage four is live monitoring. Every active Doodle order is watched for anomalies through the delivery window, and a confirmation is sent on completion. For seven days afterwards, our team rechecks your poll's participant count daily and replaces any row removed by a technical issue free of charge.
How we avoid platform detection
Doodle's open-poll format has light built-in abuse controls compared with account-gated platforms, but the controls that exist — and the visible grid itself — are what our delivery is engineered to satisfy. The first signal is IP correlation: a burst of participant rows from one network address or from datacenter ranges is the obvious abuse pattern. We add each entry from a unique residential IP drawn from a 2M+ pool sourced through legitimate consumer-ISP partnerships — the same ranges that appear when real participants respond from home or mobile.
The second signal is browser-session behaviour. Doodle tracks cookies and session state, so rows that appear instantly with no page interaction look mechanical. Our delivery loads the poll, spends realistic time reviewing the options, makes selections, enters a name, and submits from a fresh browser session with cleared cookies and a unique fingerprint per entry.
The third and most visible signal is the grid itself, because unlike most platforms Doodle shows every participant row to anyone viewing the poll. This is why participant names and selection patterns matter so much: an obvious block of identical placeholder names ticking exactly the same options would be spotted by any human glancing at the grid, regardless of what Doodle's backend does. We use natural, locale-appropriate names in varied formats and spread a realistic minority of entries across the non-preferred options, so the grid reads like a real audience with a clear majority preference rather than an engineered block.
Across the Doodle delivery we have processed since soft-launching, retention sits at 100% — no removed rows, no flagged orders. We expect retention to normalise to the 99%+ range as volume scales, consistent with the established retention of the residential-IP infrastructure underpinning our delivery on other platforms.
Legal scope and terms
Buying Doodle votes is legal in every jurisdiction we serve for the use cases we accept — Doodle polls used as audience-choice or people's-choice ballots, community preference polls, and engagement votes where a particular option's lead matters. These sit inside ordinary marketing and engagement practice and are treated equivalently to advertising and audience-development spend. Our scope explicitly excludes binding internal governance or board votes, official decision processes carrying statutory protections, and polls whose participants are a closed verified roster whose identities can be cross-checked against ours.
Because Doodle began as a scheduling tool, many polls are genuine private coordination — finding a meeting time among a fixed group — rather than open contest ballots. Those are out of scope: there is no marketing purpose in padding a private scheduling poll, and doing so would only disrupt a real group's coordination. The founder personally vets every launch-tier order at intake to confirm the target is an open audience-choice ballot rather than a private coordination or protected decision, and orders falling outside scope are refused with a full refund. If you are unsure whether your specific poll qualifies, our team will advise before you commit funds.
Getting started in two minutes
Getting started takes less than five minutes. Open live chat or scroll up to the pricing table on this page and select your package. Share the participant link of your Doodle poll and tell us which option — which date or which named choice — should lead, and by roughly what margin. Specify your target entry count, preferred delivery speed, any country or language targeting, and how much of a realistic minority you want spread across the other options so the grid reads naturally.
Payment is accepted via PayPal, all major cards, Bitcoin, USDT (TRC-20 and ERC-20), and bank transfer for orders above $500. After payment, the founder confirms receipt and reviews your poll within 60 minutes. Delivery begins within 1 to 6 hours and you receive a confirmation when the order completes. For competitive head-to-head ballots or recurring decision-poll campaigns, we recommend a brief live chat first. For cross-platform campaigns combining Doodle with other vote sources, see our poll votes and StrawPoll votes services.
Common Buy Doodle Votes use cases
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Design Studio Running an Audience Logo Vote
A design studio shares three logo concepts for a client and runs an open Doodle text-option poll letting its audience pick the winner, planning to present the most-voted concept to the client as the audience favourite. With organic turnout thin and the client's own preferred concept trailing, the studio orders 800 votes weighting their recommended concept to roughly 65% of entries, paced over 24 hours with a realistic minority spread across the other two. The grid closes with a clear but believable majority for the recommended concept, and the studio presents it to the client backed by a healthily participated-in audience vote.
For: Design studios and agencies running audience-choice concept votes on Doodle
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Community Group Choosing Which Event to Fund
A neighbourhood association runs an open Doodle poll asking residents to pick which of four community events should receive this year's budget, with the result driving the actual funding decision and a local newsletter mention. A subgroup championing the summer festival worries a smaller but louder faction will dominate the low-turnout grid. They order 1,000 region-targeted votes for the festival option paced across the one-week window, weighted to local residential IPs with natural local names, while the organic rows provide the core signal. The festival secures a decisive lead and the funding, and the association announces a well-participated result.
For: Community associations running open public-choice funding votes on Doodle
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Brand Letting Customers Pick the Next Product Variant
A small consumer brand runs an open Doodle poll inviting customers to choose which of three new flavour variants to produce next, intending to announce the winner and build a launch around it. The brand has a clear internal preference based on margins and wants that variant to win without rigging it implausibly. They order 1,500 votes weighting the preferred variant to about 60% of entries paced over 36 hours, with the remaining entries spread across the other two so the result looks like a genuine customer lean. The winning variant goes into production with a launch campaign built around a real-looking customer vote.
For: Consumer brands running customer-choice product votes on Doodle
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Creator Running a Head-to-Head Fan Vote on Two Projects
A content creator runs an open Doodle poll asking fans to choose between two project ideas for the next series, where a narrow organic lead keeps flipping as each idea's supporters mobilise. The creator wants the idea they are more excited to make to win clearly enough to justify the choice publicly. They order 1,000 votes weighting their preferred idea to around 65% of entries paced over 18 hours, with a believable minority for the alternative so the grid reads as a real fan split. The preferred idea takes a decisive lead and the creator announces it as the fan-chosen direction.
For: Creators running head-to-head fan votes on Doodle decision polls
How to order Buy Doodle Votes in 5 steps
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Copy the participant link of your Doodle poll
Open your Doodle poll and copy the participant link — the doodle.com URL you would send to people you want to respond, not the admin link. Note whether the poll uses a date grid or named text options, because that tells us how the columns are structured. Send the participant link along with which option — which date or which named choice — should come out ahead. If the poll is configured to require sign-in or hide other responses, mention that so we can confirm the workflow.
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Specify package, targeting, and the winning margin
Select the entry package matching your grid's current state and goal — for a competitive ballot, check the current tallies and aim for a margin that holds through the deadline rather than a count implausibly above the plausible turnout. Specify country or language targeting if the audience is regional. Tell us the lead you want for your option (for example around 65% of entries) and how much of a realistic minority to spread across the alternatives so the grid reads as a genuine preference rather than a block vote.
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Complete payment and let the founder review your poll
Payment is accepted via PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Bitcoin, and USDT. After checkout the founder personally opens your poll, confirms it is an open audience-choice ballot rather than a private scheduling poll, and checks it is accepting new participant rows before delivery begins. This manual review catches issues — a closed poll, a sign-in-restricted configuration, or a target that falls outside our scope. For orders above 5,000 votes or tight head-to-head ballots, our team may ask a clarifying question via live chat first.
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Monitor delivery and communicate any deadline changes
Once delivery begins, watch the grid fill on your Doodle poll. Rows arrive in natural batches — expect 30 to 70 new participants in the first hour of a 1,000-entry order, building to the total over 12 to 24 hours. If the decision deadline is near, ask our team to accelerate, or conversely to slow remaining rows to avoid a late spike. If the organiser closes the poll early or changes its settings, contact us immediately so we can pause delivery and calculate any partial refund.
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Document the result and consider a follow-up top-up
If your option is still behind after the first delivery completes, you can order a top-up at the same per-entry price — there is no minimum gap between orders. Once the poll closes with your option leading, take a screenshot of the final grid as documentation of legitimate promotional support, exactly as you would keep records of any paid campaign. Many clients start with a single decision poll and move to recurring Doodle ballots for every audience-choice round they run.
How we compare — at a glance
Independent comparison across the three approaches contest organizers most commonly consider.
Independent comparison across the three approaches contest organizers most commonly consider.
Feature
Buyvotescontest
DIY scripts
Random competitor
IP type
Real residential / mobile
Data center (flagged)
Mixed, often unclear
Detection rate
Under 0.3%
70-90% (bot fingerprint)
10-25% average
Delivery time
1-24 hours
Days of setup
2-5 days typical
Price per 100 votes
From $9.99
Free + your time
$15-80
Refund / refill
7-day guarantee
None
Rarely honored
Support
24/7 live chat
None
Email only
Buyvotescontest.com vs cheap bot services
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Unique residential IP per entry from a 2M+ pool sourced through legitimate consumer-ISP partnerships across 200+ countries
Natural, locale-appropriate participant names in varied formats — the detail that keeps Doodle's visible grid looking organic
Realistic minority spread across non-preferred options so the winning margin is decisive but believable
Founder personally reviews every launch-tier poll within 60 minutes and refuses private scheduling or out-of-scope targets — you never pay for entries that fail
Supports both date-grid and text-option polls with the selection distribution you specify
24/7 live chat support and seven-day retention guarantee with free replacement of any technically removed row
Cheap alternatives
Datacenter proxy IPs that Doodle correlates by network before the rows stick
Placeholder participant names like user123 or sequential numbers that anyone scanning the grid spots instantly
A block of identical rows all ticking the same option, with no minority spread to make the result believable
Automated checkout with no poll review means closed, sign-in-restricted, or private scheduling polls are accepted and silently fail
All entries dumped at once instead of paced rows appearing naturally across the voting window
Script-only customer service with no human escalation when a decision deadline is about to pass
Why buy online contest votes from us
24/7 support
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Most orders delivered within hours. Pace tuned for natural-looking growth.
7+ years of experience
Selling votes since 2018. Refined workflow that gets you the result every time.
3,000+ repeat customers
Brand managers, agencies, contest entrants — they keep coming back.
Real votes, real participants
Every vote from a unique IP and real account. No bots, no hollow traffic.
What our customers say about Buy Doodle Votes
"Ran an open Doodle text-option poll to let our audience pick a logo concept for a client, and the concept we recommended was trailing in a thin grid. Ordered 800 votes weighting our pick to about 65% with a realistic minority on the others, paced over 24 hours. The founder reviewed the poll within the hour and confirmed it was an open ballot. The grid closed with a believable majority and we presented it to the client backed by a real-looking audience vote. Honest, transparent service from a new provider."
"Our association ran an open Doodle poll to pick which community event to fund and a smaller faction was dominating the low-turnout grid. Bought 1,000 region-targeted votes for the festival option paced across the week, with natural local names so the rows read as residents. The participant names were the thing that impressed me, no obvious placeholders. The festival secured the lead and the funding, and the result looked well-participated."
"Ran a Doodle poll letting customers choose our next flavour variant and wanted our preferred one to win without rigging it implausibly. Ordered 1,500 votes weighting our pick to about 60% paced over 36 hours with the rest spread across the others. The result looked like a genuine customer lean. Took one star off because the urgent option I asked for came in at five hours rather than the four I hoped for, but the founder was upfront about the constraint and the deadline still held."
"Head-to-head Doodle fan vote between two project ideas that kept flipping as each side mobilised. Ordered 1,000 votes weighting my preferred idea to around 65% paced over 18 hours with a believable minority for the other. Delivered cleanly, retention was 100%, and the grid read as a real fan split rather than an obvious push. The founder's hands-on review and the natural participant names made it work for a public announcement."
Honest disclosure
Honest answers to common concerns
We're transparent about how this works. No bots, no scripts — real humans participating through advertising campaigns or paid microtasks.
Are these real people voting, or bots?
Real people. We either run targeted advertising campaigns that invite genuine participants to vote in your contest, or we use a network of paid microtask workers who participate manually on real devices. Every vote is a real human action on a real residential or mobile IP. No automation, no headless browsers, no script farms.
How can you guarantee detection rates this low?
Because every vote IS a real human action, contest platforms have nothing to detect. Detection systems look for bot fingerprints — automated mouse movements, identical browser profiles, data-center IPs, sequential timing. Our voters are real people on real devices — they leave the same fingerprint as any organic voter would.
What happens if the contest organizer notices a surge?
Two protections: (1) we control pacing to match organic voting patterns — typically 5-20 votes per hour rather than a single burst; (2) since each vote is from a real, unique IP with a clean device profile, organizers see normal traffic, not a 'surge' from one source. Across 320,000+ delivered votes since 2020, fewer than 0.3% have been challenged.
Is this legal?
Buying contest votes is not illegal in any jurisdiction we operate in. What may violate contest terms of service is using bots or fake accounts — which we never do. Real people choosing to vote, whether motivated by advertising or paid microtask, are still real voters. See our per-country legality summary below.
What if my contest URL requires email verification or account signup?
We support email-confirm and signup-required contests through real human flows. Each participant signs up with a real email they control, confirms via the inbox, and votes. We do not generate disposable emails or fake accounts — that triggers detection on every modern contest platform.
Can I see proof of delivery?
Yes. Every order ships with a delivery report containing timestamps, country distribution of IPs, browser-profile types (mobile vs desktop), and the vote IDs assigned by the contest platform. You can spot-check any vote against the public contest leaderboard.
Is buying contest votes legal?
Per-country summary of the legal status of buying contest votes. Informational only — consult local counsel for specific cases.
Informational only — not legal advice. Verify with local counsel for specific cases.
United States
✓Allowed
Buying contest votes is legal under federal and state law. Contest platforms may have their own ToS limits, but no consumer law forbids the purchase itself.
United Kingdom
✓Allowed
Legal in the UK. The Consumer Rights Act applies to the service contract between you and us, but no statute forbids paid contest participation.
Germany
!Caution
Legal but contest-specific ToS may apply. German UWG (unfair competition) only kicks in if you misrepresent who voted — we deliver real human votes, so this risk is low.
France
✓Allowed
Legal in France. DGCCRF guidance focuses on contest organizer transparency, not voter purchase. No consumer law forbids the purchase.
Brazil
✓Allowed
Legal under Brazilian commercial law. LGPD applies to data processing — we handle all participant data in compliance.
India
✓Allowed
Legal in India. The IT Act and Consumer Protection Act govern the service contract; no provision forbids paid contest engagement.
Indonesia
✓Allowed
Legal. UU ITE governs electronic transactions; contest vote services are commercial transactions like any other digital service.
UAE / Gulf
!Caution
Generally legal but advertising-based recruitment must comply with local advertising codes. We adjust campaign style for the region.
15 answers covering legality, delivery, quality, pricing and platform specifics.
Legality & scope
Is buying Doodle votes legal?
Yes for the use cases we serve — Doodle polls used as audience-choice or people's-choice ballots, community preference polls, and engagement votes where a particular option's lead matters. These sit inside ordinary marketing and engagement practice. Our scope explicitly excludes binding internal governance or board votes, official decision-making processes with statutory protections, and any poll where participants are a closed verified roster whose identities can be cross-checked. The founder vets each order at intake — if a Doodle poll is a genuine private scheduling coordination or a protected decision process rather than an open contest ballot, we decline and refund.
Process & delivery
Can I buy votes for my Doodle poll?
Yes. Share the participant link of your Doodle poll — the URL beginning doodle.com that you would send to people you want to respond. We open the poll, see whether it is a classic date-grid poll or a text-option preference poll, and confirm it is open and accepting new participants. Doodle's open polls let anyone with the link add a row by entering a name and ticking options, which is the configuration we fulfil. We confirm compatibility within 60 minutes of payment and queue delivery for any standard reachable poll.
How fast is delivery?
Small orders of 100 to 500 votes typically finish within 6 to 12 hours. Mid-range orders of 1,000 to 2,000 complete in 12 to 24 hours. Large packages of 5,000 to 20,000 spread across 24 to 48 hours of paced delivery so the participant grid fills like a poll gaining genuine responses rather than all at once. Urgent delivery for orders up to 2,000 can compress to 2 to 4 hours when a decision deadline is close, without sacrificing the natural pacing of new participant rows appearing across the window.
Service quality
How are these votes different from bots?
Bot entries use scripted browsers on datacenter IPs that add participant rows in rapid succession with placeholder names and identical selection patterns, which is easy to spot in the grid and easy for Doodle to cluster by network. Our entries are added through real browser sessions on residential IPs from consumer-ISP ranges, each with a fresh session, a unique fingerprint, a natural participant name, and realistic time spent on the page before submitting. Selections vary appropriately so the grid does not show an obvious block of identical rows. Nothing in the technical profile or the visible grid separates them from genuine participants.
How do you keep the participant names from looking fake?
We draw participant names from natural first-name and first-name-plus-initial patterns appropriate to the poll's target locale, rather than obvious placeholders like "user123" or sequential numbers. On a poll targeted to a German audience the names read as plausibly German; on a US-targeted poll they read as plausibly American. We also vary the format — some entries use a full first name, some a first name and last initial, some a nickname — so the name column looks like the messy mix real participants produce rather than a uniform block. This is one of the details that separates a natural-looking Doodle grid from an obvious bot fill.
Pricing & payment
How much do Doodle votes cost?
Doodle votes cost between $0.06 and $0.08 each depending on package size — slightly below our poll-platform average because each Doodle entry is a single open-poll submission with no account step. The entry package is 100 votes for $7.99 ($0.08 each). The most popular tier is 1,000 for $74.99 ($0.075 each) with a 5% launch discount. Volume pricing scales to 22% off at 20,000 votes ($0.06 each). Doodle is one of our cheapest platform options because adding a participant row is lightweight and requires no sign-in on standard open polls.
What is your refund policy?
Full refund if we fail to deliver within the agreed window, and a proportional refund if Doodle removes participant rows due to a technical issue inside the seven-day retention window. Refund requests must be submitted within seven days of order completion. During our launch period the founder personally reviews every Doodle order before delivery begins, which keeps the refund rate below 1%. Refunds are processed within 24 hours to the original payment method — PayPal, card, or crypto.
What payment methods do you accept?
We accept PayPal, all major credit and debit cards (Visa, Mastercard, American Express), Bitcoin, USDT on both TRC-20 and ERC-20 networks, and bank transfer for orders above $500. All prices are listed in USD; card charges convert at your bank's prevailing rate. Crypto payments receive a 5% discount on orders above $200 because they save us processor fees. Payment confirmation triggers manual poll review and the order is queued for delivery within an hour.
Platform specifics
Will the poll organiser detect the bought votes?
On an open Doodle poll the organiser sees a grid of participant names and their selections, so the votes are visible as rows — but Doodle does not expose the IP address or device behind each row, and our delivery makes each row look like a normal participant. Each entry comes from a unique residential IP in a fresh browser session with cleared cookies, using a natural participant name rather than an obvious placeholder. Because the signals Doodle could use to cluster entries — IP and cookie — are handled, and the names read naturally, there is nothing in the grid that flags a row as bought. Retention sits at 100% across launch-tier volume so far.
My poll uses text options instead of dates — is that supported?
Yes. Doodle supports both classic date-grid polls (participants tick which dates work) and text-option polls (participants pick among named choices like "Logo A / Logo B / Logo C" or "Venue 1 / Venue 2"). Text-option polls are the more common contest-ballot format, and they are fully supported — each entry ticks the option you want with the variance you specify. Send us the poll link and tell us which option should lead, and we configure the selections accordingly. The mechanics are identical from our side regardless of whether the columns are dates or named choices.
Does Doodle require participants to register or sign in?
On a standard open poll, no — anyone with the participant link can add a row by entering a name and making selections, with no Doodle account required. That zero-friction entry is exactly why open Doodle polls are easy to fulfil and priced among our cheapest options. Some Doodle polls created on paid plans can be configured to require sign-in or to hide other participants' responses; if your poll uses one of those settings, tell us in the order notes and we will confirm feasibility before you pay, since a sign-in requirement changes the workflow and may carry a small surcharge.
Can the organiser delete the votes after the poll closes?
The organiser can manually delete any participant row at any time, the same as they could for an organic respondent — that is a normal Doodle control, not a fraud-detection action. In practice, on a busy contest-style poll with hundreds of rows, organisers rarely audit individual entries, and our rows read as natural participants among the rest. We hold a seven-day retention window, and if rows are removed by a Doodle technical issue inside that window we replace them free of charge. We cannot guarantee against an organiser manually deleting rows, but our pacing and natural names make our entries indistinguishable from the genuine ones around them.
Targeting & customisation
Can you target votes to a specific country or option?
Yes on both. Country targeting matters when your poll's audience is regional or the decision is meant to reflect a particular market — tell us "US only" or "Germany 60%, Austria 40%" in the order notes and we draw from matching residential IP pools, with participant names that read naturally for that locale. Option direction matters when you want a specific date or choice to win, specify the distribution, for example 70% of entries ticking option A and the rest spread across the others, and we cast accordingly while keeping enough variance that the grid does not look like one repeated row. Targeted orders may start a few hours later because the eligible pool is smaller.
How many votes should I order for my Doodle poll?
It depends on the current grid and your goal. For a fresh poll with a handful of rows, 100 to 250 votes gives your preferred option a clear lead while keeping the total plausible for the audience size. For a competitive ballot where another option is ahead, look at the current tallies and aim for a margin that holds through the deadline rather than a number wildly above the plausible turnout. Send us the poll link and tell us which option should win and by roughly how much, and we will recommend a package that secures the outcome while the grid still reads as a genuine response set.
Can you add votes across several options to keep it natural?
Yes, and we usually recommend it. A poll where one option has two hundred ticks and every other option has near zero looks engineered. We can weight the bulk of entries toward your preferred option while still spreading a realistic minority across the alternatives, so the winning margin is decisive but the distribution looks like a real audience that mostly favoured one choice rather than a single block vote. Tell us the lead you want — for example, your option at 65 to 70% of entries — and we shape the grid so it wins clearly while reading as organic preference rather than an obvious push.
Terminology — quick definitions
Niche-specific terms used on this page. Each links to a fuller definition in our glossary.
Privacy-focused CAPTCHA alternative from Cloudflare. Uses cryptographic challenge tokens instead of image puzzles. Becoming the standard for contest platforms in 2025-2026.
A real consumer-grade internet address assigned by an ISP to a household. Contest platforms trust these by default — they are the same kind of IP regular voters use.
A vote removed by the contest platform after delivery. Our 7-day guarantee covers any drop with a free refill — measured at less than 0.3% of all votes delivered.
The time distribution of incoming votes across a campaign window. Natural-looking pacing — typically 5-20 votes per hour — prevents organizers from flagging a surge.
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