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Dot Vote

Last reviewed: 31 August 2026

Use Dot Vote when you want people to spread a limited number of dots across several options.

Up to the allowance

Participants can use fewer dots than the allowance and can place more than one dot on the same option.

Set it up

Add 2 to 10 different options and choose an allowance of 1, 2, 3 or 5 dots.

What participants can do

Participants can use from 1 dot up to the allowance. They can spread the dots or stack several on one option.

What PollSpark rejects

Participants must use at least one dot, stay within their allowance and place dots only on the options you provided.

How results work

Each option shows the total number of dots it received. Percentages use the number of dots actually cast, not the maximum possible allowance.

PDF and CSV

PDF shows dot totals and percentages for each option, based on the dots actually cast.

CSV keeps each participant’s dot allocation as one response.

Using this question

  • Works in Live and Survey, depending on your plan.
  • In Live, each browser can answer this question once.
  • Anonymous mode applies to the whole session.
  • After the first accepted response, settings that could change the meaning of the results are locked.

Read how responses work.