Question Change vote not working

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Did you manage to solve the problem? I've got exactly the same issue here

See an idea that we're working on: github.com/Kunena/Kunena-2.0/issues/1148

The main reason I want this to work is that I want to be able to have multiple votes on 1 topic (eg. when you want to be able to vote for one or more days for an event to happen on)

An extra problem was that I wasn't able to change the vote, but basically I have the same issues as the topic starter

So the solution you found on github is unfortunately no option for me

The link to the item on GitHub was not a solution; it's a proposal to change the way Kunena works.

From the inception of the polling feature in Kunena (from the time of K 1.6) we were aware that voting was going to be a contentious issue. Running a poll where single voting is permitted is difficult enough. People (who vote in these polls) will have a genuine need to want to change their vote - in cases where they've made a mistake - and, after they've pressed the Vote button they realise that they didn't mean to vote that way. In cases like those there should be an option to correct the mistake and that is a reasonable thing to do. Perhaps a better solution should be to allow people the opportunity to review their vote before the vote is cast.

Just as in real-world ballots, people fill out ballot papers and make mistakes. In real life, people can ask for a new ballot paper but, once the vote is in the ballot box, that's the end of it; you can't open up the box, get your form out and change it. It is only my personal opinion, however, that, just as is the case in real life, once a person has cast their vote that's an indication of how they truly feel in relation to a voting question. This is called "accountability for one's actions". The problem with online opinion polling is that, people may want to change their vote based on the current voting trend. Again, this is only my personal opinion, I do not believe that changing a vote to reshape the current voting trend is a good idea. But, perhaps, online polling is not the same as voting in the real world? I don't know.

The problem is compounded if you allow multiple voting. I haven't really studied the reasons why multiple vote-casting could be useful but there are probably many cases where this could be used in a forum; the example given by martijndemulder is a good one. From a technical viewpoint, however, the ability to retract or change a vote cast in a multiple voting context further complicates the issue. Implementing a technical solution requires complicated programming to determine which specific data item (in a multiple vote poll) is the one that needs to be changed. This added complexity (and the additional lines of PHP that are required to perform the process) increases processing time.

Therefore I can understand that, in a multiple voting context, it's not really feasible to change a vote once cast. Therefore, it would seem more reasonable, if a person voting in a multiple vote poll was properly "warned" with a message that says, in effect "After you have voted you cannot change your vote. Are you really sure?"

If we want to aim for a forum that provides the best, fastest response times, then we perhaps should also ask the question whether all this additional processing overhead is a good thing, too. We could achieve some economy if we simply removed the ability to change a vote once cast. This is also only my personal opinion but, I think we should examine the reasons why votes need to be changed at all. If we simply remove the functionality to change the voting we achieve one important outcome: we won't have reports on the forum asking for help when the function doesn't work. Of course we will probably have some people complaining that they want their forum community members to be able to change their votes. That's a different question and it's a whole new debate.