# Run a poll with your team

> Ask a question and let everyone on the board vote with the Poll component: generate options with AI, start and end voting, and show the results live.

Source: https://mockflow.com/docs/run-a-poll-with-your-team

The **Poll** component asks a question on the board and lets everyone vote, with the results updating live as votes come in. Use it to pick a theme for a school fair, choose a name for a product, check understanding at the end of a lesson or decide on the next sprint goal, right beside the ideas being voted on.

![A poll on a board asking which theme to pick for the school fair, with four options, results bars and Show voters links](https://assets.mockflow.com/docs/media/b14ea25dcc644ea7a414cc40ad735e7a.webp)

## Create a poll

1. Click **Add anything** (the plus button) in the toolbar at the bottom of the board and choose **Poll**.
2. Click **Edit Question** in its toolbar and type the question. Click **Interact with Poll** (the hand button) to edit the options or click **Add option** for more.
3. To let AI write it, click the AI button on the left of the toolbar, choose **Generate new** and describe the poll. Turn on **Gen Images** to add a picture to each option.

**Add/Change Media** puts a picture above the question.

## Start and end voting

People can vote only while the poll is running:

1. Click **Start Poll** in the toolbar. Everyone on the board can now click an option to vote, and **Change vote** if they change their mind.
2. **Toggle Results View** shows or hides the results bars while voting is open.
3. Click **End Poll** to lock the results. **Reopen Poll** lets people vote again.

**Show voters** under an option lists who chose it. **Reset Votes** clears every vote to run the poll again.

Only the person who created the poll can start, end and reset it, and the question and options are locked while voting is open. People need to be signed in to vote.

> **Plan** Polls, upvotes, spinning wheels and timers are collaborative components, included in the Plus and Max plans. Generating with AI uses AI credits. See [MockFlow pricing](https://mockflow.com/pricing/).

## Next steps

- [Collect and upvote ideas](/docs/collect-and-upvote-ideas)
- [Pick at random with a spinning wheel](/docs/pick-at-random-with-a-spinning-wheel)