Poll widget

I am having problems with the poll widget in blogspot.com, I was to use this as a way to record the students votes on who they wanted to go through to the final, however this seems to have been a bust as when they submit there cote is comes up "cannot be processed" which is a pain in the butt, there isn't anything in the known issues of blogspot, but it is being mentioned in the google groups forums that a number of people are having the same problem.