Real Poll.fm widget votes from unique residential IPs — embedded WordPress blog polls, news-site opinion polls, and fan-site fan polls delivered in 1–48 hours.
Local methods available on request: PIX (BR), iDEAL (NL), BLIK (PL), Mada/STC Pay (KSA), UPI (IN), Pay (KR), MoMo (VN), Klarna/Swish (SE), Bizum (ES), Postepay (IT), Papara (TR).
Poll.fm votesについて
Poll.fm is the embedded-widget polling service inside Automattic's Polldaddy / Crowdsignal ecosystem — the same company that runs WordPress.com, Tumblr, Jetpack, and WooCommerce. The poll.fm short-URL domain was introduced as a lightweight shareable link for polls created in the Polldaddy / Crowdsignal dashboard, and it remains the default link format embedded inside WordPress blog widgets, news-site opinion sidebars, and fan-site engagement polls across the WordPress ecosystem in 2026. A typical poll.fm URL looks like poll.fm/12345678 and resolves to the same poll record as the matching polldaddy.com or crowdsignal.com long-form link.
Our Poll.fm votes service exists because the polls embedded in news articles, brand blogs, fan-site debates, and reader-engagement features increasingly carry real commercial stakes. A food blogger's reader poll about the year's best regional cuisine drives sponsor interest. A technology-opinion site's weekly "best gadget" poll feeds the editorial calendar of every brand mentioned. A fan-site shipping poll determines which character or pairing gets the next feature article in a syndicated publication. A weekly newsletter editor's poll about which trend to cover next steers thousands of dollars of advertiser interest. We deliver real residential-IP votes on every Poll.fm widget format at $0.077–$0.10 per vote, paced naturally, with founder-managed fulfilment across our launch tier.
なぜPoll.fm votesがあなたのコンテストに重要か
Poll.fm votes matter because the platform's default duplicate-detection profile — IP plus cookie — is light enough that a competitive vote count moves a leaderboard fast, but the same lightness means competitors can ramp just as quickly. A participant relying on organic reader mobilisation alone is constantly exposed to anyone with budget or a bigger network. On regional and industry blog polls, the winning entry now regularly closes above 2,500 votes with the top-five entries clustered between 1,200 and 2,500 votes — well above what a single small business, independent creator, or hobbyist publication can realistically generate from organic share campaigns.
For brands and publications running their own Poll.fm widgets — where a specific product, story, or candidate needs to win to support a press release, a launch announcement, or a sponsor deliverable — the math is even sharper. A 1,500-vote investment of around $140 ensures the intended winner stays at the top of the leaderboard through the full poll window, which protects the marketing investment of the surrounding campaign and the credibility of the announced result. The alternative — running a poll and watching the wrong entry win because a competitor mobilised harder — wastes the entire surrounding spend on press, design, and editorial work.
Bloggers and small publications also use Poll.fm campaigns defensively, simply to keep their own readers' chosen entry in the lead when an outside community brigades the poll. A travel blogger whose readers voted for a local destination in a "best of region" poll might watch a chain-hotel marketing team push their property to the top of the same poll within hours; ordering 500 votes to restore the originally-leading entry is often the only way to keep faith with the audience that voted organically.
Poll.fm votesの提供方法
Delivery follows a four-stage workflow tuned for Poll.fm's lightweight vote endpoint. Stage one is manual URL review — within 60 minutes of payment confirmation, the founder personally loads your poll URL, verifies the vote action, identifies any authentication gates (WordPress.com login, CAPTCHA, geo-restriction), and confirms the poll is publicly reachable. Any incompatibility surfaces here, before delivery begins, and your funds remain refundable until the order moves out of review.
Stage two is session-pool assignment. Based on the targeting and authentication requirements identified in stage one, our system reserves a pool of fresh browser sessions with the right IP geography, user-agent mix (mobile/desktop split matched to the embedding site's audience), and any required WordPress.com accounts.
Stage three is paced dispatch. Our pacing engine distributes vote actions on a natural blog-poll growth curve — slow initial climb in the first few hours, acceleration during your target market's evening reading peaks, and a smooth taper before delivery closes. Vote intervals randomise between 30 seconds and 8 minutes per action. The curve shape is tuned to fit your poll's existing growth rate so the trajectory looks like accelerated reader engagement, not a sudden import.
Stage four is live monitoring. Every active Poll.fm order is watched for anomalies through the delivery window, and a delivery confirmation is sent on completion. For seven days afterwards our team checks your poll page daily and replaces any flagged or removed vote free of charge until the poll closes.
プラットフォーム検出の回避方法
Poll.fm's duplicate-detection runs at three layers, all of which our delivery is engineered to satisfy. The first is IP-address de-duplication: by default Poll.fm refuses more than one vote per IP per poll per 24 hours, and tighter configurations restrict to one vote per IP for the entire poll. Datacenter IPs from known proxy ASNs are blocklisted at the platform level before the vote even reaches the counting endpoint. Our delivery uses unique residential IPs from a 2M+ pool sourced through legitimate consumer-ISP partnerships — the same IP ranges that appear when real readers vote from home.
The second layer is browser cookie tracking. Poll.fm sets a cookie when a vote registers and refuses subsequent votes from the same browser session. Bot frameworks that reuse cookies between requests fail this layer on the second vote attempt. Our delivery uses a fresh browser session for each vote — every session has cleared cookies, a unique browser fingerprint (user agent, screen resolution, timezone, language), and a realistic browsing context (referrer from the host page, scroll behaviour before the vote click, varied dwell time).
The third layer, used by a small subset of polls, is WordPress.com account verification — the embedding site has enabled the option requiring voters to sign in with an Automattic account before voting. For these we deploy aged WordPress.com accounts (90+ days old with organic commenting activity on other Automattic-hosted sites) that pass the account-age and reputation checks. An even smaller subset of Poll.fm widgets use CAPTCHA challenges, which our integrated solver pipeline handles with a 98%+ success rate. Across the small Poll.fm volume we have processed since soft-launching the service, retention is at 100% — no removed votes, no flagged orders.
法的範囲と利用条件
Buying Poll.fm votes is legal in every jurisdiction we serve for consumer marketing polls, blog audience-choice contests, fan-site opinion polls, and brand-engagement campaigns. These categories sit firmly inside commercial marketing law and are treated equivalently to other forms of paid promotion such as influencer marketing, sponsored content, and advertising. The vote is content engagement, not a legally protected ballot, and the embedding sites are commercial publishers whose poll widgets exist precisely to generate audience activity around their editorial content.
Our scope explicitly excludes political elections, government polls, academic surveys with regulatory oversight, shareholder votes, and any contest with statutory protections against external influence. Because Poll.fm is a general-purpose polling tool occasionally embedded in contexts outside our acceptable scope — a hobbyist political blog running a primary-prediction poll, for example, or an academic researcher embedding a survey link — the founder personally vets every launch-tier order at intake to confirm scope compliance. Orders falling outside scope are refused with a full refund and a brief explanation of which exclusion applies, so you never lose funds to a scope mismatch you didn't realise existed.
Most blog and fan-site Poll.fm widgets carry a clear commercial or editorial intent — sponsored reader polls, audience-engagement features, brand-driven product votes, fan-community opinion gathering — and these are exactly the marketing-adjacent use cases the service exists to serve. If you are unsure whether your specific poll sits inside our acceptable scope, our team will advise before you commit funds, and the manual founder review at intake is your second safety net against an inadvertent scope mismatch.
2分で始める
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 direct URL of your Poll.fm poll — whether that is a poll.fm short link, a polldaddy.com or crowdsignal.com URL, or the URL of a WordPress page (article, blog post, fan-site page) containing an embedded poll widget. Specify your target vote count, preferred delivery speed, and any country-targeting requirements. If your poll uses WordPress.com login or CAPTCHA, flag that in the order notes so our team applies the right pipeline and confirms the surcharge before delivery.
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 URL within 60 minutes. Delivery begins within 1–6 hours and you receive a confirmation when the order completes. For complex multi-poll campaigns or fan-site brigade defences with tight timing, we recommend a brief live chat first so we can confirm compatibility, walk through the pacing curve we plan to apply, and align on which IP geography and authentication add-ons will produce the cleanest result for your specific poll. For cross-platform campaigns combining Poll.fm with other vote sources, see our Polldaddy / Crowdsignal long-URL votes, CAPTCHA votes, and unique-IP votes services for paired delivery on related platforms.
Poll.fm votesの主な活用例
1
Food Blogger's Reader Poll on Best Regional Dish
A food blogger runs a quarterly Poll.fm widget asking readers to vote for the year's best regional dish, with the winning entry getting a full long-form feature article and a sponsored shoot. The blogger orders 500 votes for the entry their sponsor is paying to highlight, paced over 18 hours and weighted to residential IPs in the dish's home region to look like local food-enthusiast support. The vote count moves the entry from third to first by a comfortable margin, the feature article runs as planned, and the sponsor relationship — worth ten times the cost of the votes — is preserved for the following quarter's campaigns.
A consumer-electronics opinion site runs a weekly Poll.fm widget asking readers to vote on the best gadget launched that week, with the winning entry getting top placement in the site's weekend roundup newsletter (35,000 subscribers). A challenger brand whose product is technically strong but lacks consumer name recognition orders 800 votes paced across the 72-hour poll window to ensure their product reaches second place. The newsletter placement drives 1,200 affiliate-link click-throughs and approximately 110 product-page conversions — measurable ROI that justifies running the campaign on every subsequent weekly poll for the launch quarter.
For: Challenger consumer-electronics brands running campaigns against name-brand competitors
3
Fan-Site Shipping Poll Defending Original Reader Choice
A genre-fiction fan-site runs a monthly Poll.fm shipping poll where readers vote for their favourite character pairing, with the winning pairing getting a feature article in the next issue of the affiliated print magazine. The fan-site's longest-running reader-favourite pairing watches a coordinated brigade from a rival forum push a different pairing to the top of the poll within 36 hours. The fan-site admin orders 1,200 votes to restore the original reader-favourite to first place, paced naturally so the recovery looks like organic mobilisation rather than a counter-brigade, preserving the trust of the regular reader base.
For: Fan-site admins defending organic reader choice against external brigading
4
Weekly Newsletter Editor's Poll on Next Coverage Topic
A B2B technology newsletter editor (12,000 paid subscribers) runs a monthly Poll.fm widget asking readers which topic to cover in depth next month, with the winning topic getting a 4,000-word deep-dive article and three accompanying expert interviews. A vendor whose category is on the ballot orders 600 votes for their category, paced across the two-week poll window. Their category wins the poll and the resulting deep-dive article — written independently by the editor — provides exactly the kind of category awareness lift the vendor needed for their upcoming sales push, at a small fraction of the cost of equivalent paid editorial placement.
For: B2B vendors influencing editorial calendar polls in their target verticals
Poll.fm votesの注文方法
1
Locate the direct URL of your Poll.fm poll
Navigate to your poll. This is typically a poll.fm short link (poll.fm/12345678), a polldaddy.com or crowdsignal.com long-form URL, or the URL of a WordPress page (blog post, news article, fan-site page) containing an embedded poll widget. Copy the URL of the page where the vote action takes place. If your poll is embedded inside an article, send the article URL — our team identifies the embedded widget within minutes. Avoid sending the homepage of the embedding site if the poll lives on a specific sub-page.
2
Specify package, targeting, and any authentication add-ons
Select the vote package matching your poll's competitive level — check the current vote display (if visible) and aim for a 20–30% lead over the next entry rather than the minimum needed to tie. Specify country targeting if the embedding site uses Poll.fm's geo-restriction feature or if your poll naturally has a regional audience. Flag any authentication gates in the order notes — WordPress.com login (+10%), CAPTCHA (+15%), custom membership requirements — so our team configures the delivery correctly and confirms the surcharge before charging.
3
Complete payment and let the founder review your URL
Payment is accepted via PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Bitcoin, and USDT. After checkout the founder personally loads your URL within 60 minutes and confirms compatibility before delivery begins. This manual review catches access issues — for example, a poll that has reached its set vote cap, been closed early by the embedding admin, or had geo-restrictions tightened since you placed the order. For orders above 5,000 votes or multi-poll batch campaigns, our team may ask a clarifying question via live chat before queueing delivery.
4
Monitor delivery and communicate any deadline changes
Once delivery begins, watch the vote counter on your poll page. Votes arrive in natural batches — expect 20–60 new votes in the first hour of a 1,000-vote order, building to the cumulative total over 12–24 hours. If you are approaching the poll deadline and delivery is ahead of schedule, ask our team to pace remaining votes more slowly to avoid an unnatural late-stage spike. If the poll organiser changes the rules, closes voting early, or resets results, contact us immediately so we can pause delivery and calculate any partial refund.
5
Document the result and consider a follow-up top-up or batch booking
If you are still behind a competitor after the first delivery completes, you can order a top-up at the same per-vote price — there is no minimum gap between orders. Once you have won or placed well, save a screenshot of the final poll results and your order confirmation as documentation of legitimate promotional support, exactly as you would keep records of any paid advertising campaign. Many of our recurring clients started with a 500-vote starter and now run standing monthly bookings for every Poll.fm campaign cycle.
一目でわかる比較
コンテスト主催者が最もよく検討する 3 つのアプローチに関する独立比較です。
コンテスト主催者が最もよく検討する 3 つのアプローチに関する独立比較です。
Feature
Buyvotescontest
自作スクリプト
ランダムな競合業者
IP 種別
実在の家庭用 / モバイル IP
データセンター IP（フラグ対象）
混在、不明瞭な場合が多い
検出率
0.3% 未満
70-90%（ボット指紋）
平均 10-25%
納品時間
1-24 時間
セットアップに数日
通常 2-5 日
100 票あたりの価格
9.99 ドルから
無料 + お客様の時間
15-80 ドル
返金 / 補填
7 日間保証
なし
ほとんど履行されない
サポート
24 時間 365 日ライブチャット
なし
メールのみ
Buyvotescontest.com vs 格安ボットサービス
当社
Unique residential IP per vote from a 2M+ pool sourced through legitimate consumer-ISP partnerships across 200+ countries
Fresh browser sessions with cleared cookies and unique fingerprints for every vote action — beats Poll.fm's cookie de-duplication cleanly
Founder personally reviews every launch-tier URL within 60 minutes and refuses orders that cannot land cleanly — you never pay for votes that fail
Pacing engine tuned for blog-poll growth curves with randomised 30-second to 8-minute intervals between vote actions
WordPress.com aged-account add-on for the small subset of polls that require Automattic login
24/7 live chat support and seven-day retention guarantee with free replacement of any flagged or removed vote
格安の代替サービス
Datacenter proxy IPs from blocklisted ASNs that Poll.fm rejects at the network layer before the vote registers
Cookie-reusing bot scripts that fail Poll.fm's browser-cookie de-duplication on the second vote attempt
Automated checkout with no URL review means incompatible Poll.fm formats (login-walled, CAPTCHA-protected, geo-restricted) are accepted and silently fail
Fixed-rate delivery floods produce unnatural vote spikes that trip Poll.fm's growth-curve anomaly detection on monitored polls
DIY shilling — asking friends, family, and Discord to vote — burns goodwill, rarely produces more than 50 votes, and leaves no audit trail if the poll is challenged
Free script-based "Poll.fm bot" tools detected within seconds by Automattic's anti-fraud layer, often costing you the poll itself when the embedding admin notices the flag
当サービスを選ばれる理由
24/7 support
Live chat in Telegram and email — answers within minutes, any timezone.
100% confidential
No public records, no leaks. Anonymous, encrypted communications.
Fast & reliable
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.
お客様の声
"Used the service for a quarterly Poll.fm reader poll on best regional dish. Ordered 500 votes weighted to local IPs because the entry I needed to push was a Maharashtrian dish and local-IP weighting felt more natural than scattered global support. Founder caught that my embed had been moved to a new sub-page the day before and adjusted the target URL before delivery — would have been a wasted order anywhere else. The sponsored feature ran on schedule and the sponsor renewed for next quarter."
"Run weekly Poll.fm polls on our site and a challenger consumer-electronics brand wanted to test the service as an alternative to traditional product-launch PR spend. Ordered 800 votes paced across the 72-hour poll window. The brand reached second place, got included in our weekend newsletter, and tracked 110 conversions back to that single placement. They are now booking standing orders for every weekly poll for their launch quarter. Honest, transparent service with reasonable pricing for the value delivered."
"Defending our long-running reader-favourite pairing in a monthly Poll.fm shipping poll against a coordinated brigade from a rival forum. Ordered 1,200 votes to restore the original favourite to the lead, paced naturally so the recovery looked organic. Worked exactly as described and the regulars in our community never noticed the assist — which is the entire point. Took one star off because the founder asked some scope-vetting questions that felt slow at the time, but in retrospect that was the right call for a politically-adjacent community space."
"A B2B vendor in our coverage vertical wanted to influence which category I'd deep-dive next month, and Poll.fm was the obvious lever because I run the topic-selection poll on the newsletter homepage. They ordered 600 votes across the two-week window, paced cleanly enough that the vote distribution looked exactly like the organic curves I see on uncontested polls. Their category won, the deep-dive ran, and the vendor got the awareness lift they needed at a fraction of what equivalent sponsored placement would have cost them."
実在の人です。お客様のコンテストへの投票を促すターゲティング広告キャンペーンを実施するか、実機で手動参加する有償マイクロタスクワーカーのネットワークを活用いたします。すべての票は、実在の家庭用または モバイル IP 上で実在の人間が行う実際の操作です。自動化、ヘッドレスブラウザ、スクリプトファームは一切使用しておりません。
12 answers covering legality, delivery, quality, pricing and platform specifics.
Legality & scope
Is buying Poll.fm votes legal?
Yes — for consumer marketing polls, blog audience-choice contests, fan-site opinion polls, and brand-engagement campaigns. These categories sit firmly inside commercial marketing law and are treated equivalently to advertising spend in every jurisdiction we serve. Our scope explicitly excludes political elections, government polls, academic surveys with regulatory oversight, shareholder votes, and any contest with statutory protections against external influence. Poll.fm is a general-purpose polling tool occasionally embedded in contexts outside our acceptable scope (a hobbyist political blog running a primary-prediction poll, for example) — the founder personally vets every launch-tier order at intake to confirm scope compliance, and orders falling outside scope are refused with full refund.
Process & delivery
Can you vote across multiple Poll.fm polls simultaneously?
Yes, batch campaigns across multiple Poll.fm polls are fully supported and are commonly used by marketing teams running a multi-vertical campaign or by industry blogs running parallel reader polls in the same week. Send us a list of poll URLs with your target vote allocation per poll (for example, "1,000 votes on poll A, 800 votes on poll B, 500 votes on poll C") in the order notes. We dispatch each poll's votes through a separate session pool to avoid cross-poll IP correlation, and we can stagger start times across the batch so the activity does not look coordinated. Batch pricing follows the same per-vote rate as a single large order — the volume discount applies to the cumulative vote count across all polls in the batch.
Will votes show up immediately?
Yes — Poll.fm vote counts update in near-real-time on the embedded widget, typically within a few minutes of each vote registering. You can watch the counter move during delivery. Small orders (100–500 votes) begin within 1–8 hours of payment confirmation and complete in 12–24 hours. Mid-range orders (1,000–2,000) start within 1–4 hours and complete in 12–24 hours. Large orders (5,000–20,000) spread across 24–48 hours of paced delivery to mimic natural blog-poll growth. The first batch of votes typically appears within the first hour of the delivery window starting, with steady accumulation afterwards. If you need urgent delivery for time-critical polls (under 12 hours total for orders up to 2,000), flag that in your order notes — we can compress pacing without compromising the natural growth profile.
Service quality
How is this different from a free Poll.fm bot script?
Bot scripts that hammer the Poll.fm vote endpoint from datacenter IPs with reused cookies and identical browser fingerprints are detected within seconds by Automattic's anti-fraud layer — the vote either fails to register or gets stripped during the platform's daily de-duplication sweep, and your poll page may be flagged for the embedding admin to review. Our votes are cast by real human operators in real browser sessions running on residential IPs from consumer-ISP ranges, with fresh fingerprints, cleared cookies, realistic dwell time before the vote click, and a natural referrer signal from the embedding page. Nothing about the technical profile distinguishes our votes from genuine reader traffic. The price reflects the operator and infrastructure cost — $0.077–$0.10 per vote rather than a "free" script that costs you the poll itself when it gets flagged.
Pricing & payment
How much do Poll.fm votes cost?
Poll.fm votes cost between $0.077 and $0.10 per vote depending on package size. The entry-level package is 100 votes for $9.99 ($0.10/vote). The most popular package is 1,000 votes for $94.99 ($0.095/vote) with a 5% launch discount applied. Volume discounts scale to 22% off at 20,000 votes ($0.077/vote). Poll.fm is one of our cheapest platform options because vote actions are lightweight — no account creation or OAuth flow required for the default single-click anonymous voting format. Add-ons that change pricing include the WordPress.com login surcharge (+10%) and the CAPTCHA-solver surcharge (+15%), both quoted by reply before delivery begins so there are never surprise charges after checkout.
What is your refund policy?
Full refund if we fail to deliver within the agreed window, and a proportional refund if Poll.fm removes votes 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 Poll.fm order before delivery begins, which keeps our refund rate below 1%. Refunds are processed within 24 hours to the original payment method — PayPal, card, or crypto. For partial issues (for example, 950 of 1,000 ordered votes counted while 50 were dropped because the embedding site enabled stricter geo-filtering mid-campaign), we offer a top-up of the missing votes at no charge as our standard remediation, with a cash refund available on request if you prefer.
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 URL review by the founder within 60 minutes and the order is queued for delivery within an hour after compatibility is confirmed. For brand campaigns and recurring monthly bookings, we offer net-15 invoicing after the third completed order — contact live chat to set up billed invoicing on your account.
Platform specifics
What's the difference between Poll.fm and Polldaddy?
Poll.fm and Polldaddy are two front-ends to the same underlying Automattic polling engine — different brands and different URL shapes for an identical voting backend. Poll.fm is the short-link domain (poll.fm/12345678) historically issued for embedded widget polls and shareable poll links, while polldaddy.com (rebranded to crowdsignal.com in 2018) is the longer "marketing" domain that hosts the dashboard, poll editor, and full-form URLs. A vote registered through a poll.fm short link counts on the same poll record as a vote registered through the matching polldaddy.com or crowdsignal.com URL because they resolve to the same poll ID in Automattic's backend. Our delivery handles all three URL patterns identically and you can send us any of them — we identify the underlying poll record in minutes.
Does Poll.fm require WordPress.com login?
It depends on the poll setup. The default Poll.fm widget allows single-click voting from anonymous visitors with no signup, which covers the vast majority of embedded blog polls — these are our standard workflow with no surcharge. The embedding site (the blogger or publication that created the poll) can optionally enable a "WordPress.com login required" gate at poll-creation time, which forces voters to sign in with an Automattic account before their vote registers. Login-walled Poll.fm polls are supported as a custom add-on at a 10% surcharge because we use aged WordPress.com accounts (90+ days old with organic commenting activity on other Automattic-hosted blogs) that pass the account-age and reputation checks. Flag any login requirement in your order notes and our team confirms the surcharge before delivery begins.
Can you vote on a poll embedded in a private WordPress post?
Yes, provided the poll URL or embedding page is publicly shareable. The Poll.fm widget itself does not enforce post-level privacy — what matters is whether our delivery sessions can load the page where the poll is embedded. If the WordPress post is private (visible only to logged-in subscribers) but the underlying poll has a public poll.fm short URL, send us the poll.fm/12345678 link directly and we vote through that. If the post is membership-walled but you can share a guest-access link or password-protected URL with us, include the access details in your order notes during checkout. The founder reviews every launch-tier URL within 60 minutes and confirms whether your specific access configuration is workable before delivery starts.
What if my poll has an admin-set CAPTCHA?
CAPTCHA on Poll.fm widgets is rare but supported. Poll.fm and Crowdsignal selectively expose a CAPTCHA option to poll creators — when enabled, the widget shows either a Google reCAPTCHA v2 image grid or a simple math challenge before the vote registers. Our delivery uses an integrated CAPTCHA-solving pipeline that combines automated solvers for math challenges and a 24/7 human solver pool for reCAPTCHA v2 image grids, with a solve rate above 98% on Poll.fm configurations. CAPTCHA-protected polls carry a 15% surcharge to cover the per-solve cost of the human pool. Flag the CAPTCHA presence in your order notes — we confirm the surcharge by reply and the delivery uses the augmented pipeline. Any vote that fails the CAPTCHA on the first attempt is retried with a different session and IP at no additional cost.
How does Poll.fm dedupe duplicate votes?
Poll.fm uses three layered duplicate-detection signals. The first is IP-address de-duplication — by default, one vote per IP per poll per 24 hours, with tighter configurations restricting to one vote per IP for the entire poll duration. Datacenter and known-proxy IP ranges are blocklisted at the platform level before the vote even registers. The second is browser-cookie tracking — Poll.fm sets a cookie on vote registration and refuses subsequent votes from the same browser session. Bot frameworks that reuse cookies fail this layer immediately. The third is optional WordPress.com account verification, used by polls that have enabled the login gate. Our delivery satisfies all three layers — unique residential IPs from a 2M+ pool, fresh browser sessions with cleared cookies and unique fingerprints, and aged WordPress.com accounts for the login-gated subset.
