25/10/2026
Lost poll tip: get your old polls back, even the expired ones
Somewhere in your inbox there's a Cockpit link to the poll you ran at last spring's offsite. Probably. Unless you deleted the mail, or used your work address, or it's buried under 4'000 newsletters (none from us, by the way: we poll, we don't pollute 😉).
DirectPoll has no accounts and no passwords. Your e-mail address is the only thing that ties your polls to you. That keeps it simple, and it also means you can find your polls again from that address alone.
It's hiding in a place you might not expect: the delete button.
🔎 Open the cockpit of any poll saved with your address. If you have none at hand, create a new one with the same address and save it.
👉 Under Danger zone, click Delete poll, then the "delete all polls" link in the text below it.
✉️ You get an e-mail with a link to a page that lists all your polls, live and expired. Each one links straight to its cockpit, and the expired ones are marked.
Don't worry about the word "delete". Nothing is deleted unless you tick the polls and confirm on that page. Just looking is fine. The link works once and is valid for 60 minutes.
Here's the part most people don't know: an expired poll isn't gone right away. For about a year and a half after it expires, you can open its cockpit and renew it, and you get the questions and all the results back under the same links. That makes next year's team survey a lot less work, even if you forgot to save your poll now and then during the year.
And if you really do want to be forgotten, the same page deletes everything in one go, including your supporter status if you have one. Just be aware that deleted means gone for good. Not even we can bring a deleted poll back.
👉 Details in the FAQ: https://directpoll.com/faq.html
When did you last go looking for a poll you ran a year ago?
