SecurePoll's database schema includes a field el_owner defined as a non-null integer with no default value. In practice, it is never assigned a value by the poll creation page either. Running grep owner * -r on the code indicates it is never used anywhere really. In practice, it is always assigned the value 0 if the database is not using strict mode. If the DB is using strict mode, CreatePage will throw a DB exception because el_owner doesn't have a default value; this means you cannot even create a poll in strict mode.

The el_owner field should instead be populated with the user ID of the user who creates the poll. That way we won't have issues with strict mode either.