I'm running a Win11 ARM VM on UTM and it's been flawless. Can't imagine it would do worse with a less demanding OS.

Ah that's fair. However how will that be different with a proper polling feature? Will it have the capability to be locked to instance/community members only?

Since we have vision of the absolute count of up and down votes, can't we just use that as the voting mechanism for now, like how Reddit mods did during protests and how other Lemmy instances are doing now for their own votes to defederate Threads? It's not like this poll has more than 2 options.