@feditips

FWIW there's quite a lengthy discussion of exactly this issue going on on Github

So the issue is known; the question is what (if anything) to do about it

Re: [mastodon/mastodon] Editing a poll's message after it has been published causes an issue with the poll results. (Issue #24997)

Here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/24997#issuecomment-1722439124

(Are you FediThing? Then this is not news to you)