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SecurePoll: Add a "Preview" feature when creating polls
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Description

Feature summary (what you would like to be able to do and where):
When creating a poll it would be nice to preview it as though it were live.

Use case(s) (list the steps that you performed to discover that problem, and describe the actual underlying problem which you want to solve. Do not describe only a solution):
Presently the only way to review what a poll looks like is to have the poll go live, then either tweak the start/end dates in the backend (not ideal) or edit the display text in the translation interface.

Benefits (why should this be implemented?):

  • Allows previews of polls (and thus errors can be spotted)
  • Allows for screenshots of the ballot page to be included in election education materials

Event Timeline

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jrbs triaged this task as Low priority.Aug 5 2025, 6:37 PM

We could add a preview page which is essentially a clone of the the vote page, except that it would have no submit button. And it needs to be available only for not-started-yet polls.