I would love to see a poll plugin once Phoenix comes out. I was looking at [url=http://blog.jalenack.com/archives/democracy/]Democrocy[/url], a GLP'd poll plugin for Wordpress. It uses Ajax to send the results so the page doesn't have to be reloaded. It also works when javascript is disabled. Since it's GPL, it should be no problem, legally speaking, to port this to b2evolution. I downloaded it thinking I might take a crack at it, but I'm pretty sure it's over my head. I'll start with something easier. But maybe posting this here will give someone some ideas. Once feature that will have to be added is support for multiple blogs. It needs to be easy to have several blogs using several different active polls. And by easy I mean the user shouldn't have to edit the skin to change the poll id. The Question table should probably be modified to have a blog id column. Then the backoffice tab for this can have the blogs listed across the top, like the write tab has.
Edit: Since the [url=http://www.maani.us/charts/index.php]PHP/SWF charts lib[/url] looks like it will be standard in Phoenix, it wouldn't be too hard to make poll results show as a flash chart. The admin could even be given choices in the backoffice on whether to display the results as a pie chart, bar graph or non-flash results.
Does the Phoenix alpha version implement a poll system?