the arguments are: MessageNumber, UserNameOrAlias

The MessageNumber is the message number for the close to be polled.
The UserNameOrAlias should be the currentl authenticated user and must
match the pollster (sender) of the poll for the closure to succeed.

Made a couple of minor updates - Displaying the ESC=Quit text when voting on a poll, and when viwing the status, it now outputs the number of each poll and the total number of polls.

Updated so that the checkmark character is correctly displayed in the item text when an item is selected in multi-select mode (with the spacebar).

stubs (sbj, sbl, etc.) here into this new file and will be including from those scripts.

After closing a poll and then quitting out of viewing results, the number of open polls shown on the screen will be correctly reduced.

Bug fix: When displaying the list of polls to vote on, it now only shows polls that are open.  Also, udpated the main menu to also show how many polls are open (in addition to how many polls there are in the area).

Version 1.17 beta 44: Added support for users to close polls (only if they created the poll or if they're the sysop).  I ended up using the ! key for that, since many other keys were already taken.  Also, renamed "Read Me.txt" and "Revision history.txt" so they don't have spaces in the filenames.

Version 0.25 Beta: Finished the code for closing a poll.  This is done with the C key when viewing poll results.

Made a small code change around where votes are entered in the traditional user interface (when voting from viewing the results).  Also added a condition where sysops are also able to close polls (although that functionality still isn't complete yet).

Updated to support multi-answer polls.  Requires a Synchronet 3.17 build from August 14, 2017 or newer.
Next, I want to add a command to close a poll (would only work for the person who created the poll or the sysop).

or via echocfg) were not automatically slash-terminated. So if the user did not
provide the trailing slash (or backslash on Windows), then the bundles and
packets in an inbox could not be extracted/imported.
Also, fixed the truncation of area descriptions in the badareas.lst file.

Updated to show the number of choices a user can submit for a poll, and restricted the user to choosing only that many. Also, started working on adding an option to let the user close a poll they created (while viewing poll results).  Requires the latest & greatest DDLightbarMenu.js (in exec\load).

Added a property, maxNumSelections, to limit the number of selections a user can make in multi-select mode.  -1 or 0 means no limit.  I still need to work on getting the check mark displayed properly for selected items in multi-select mode..

Version 0.23 Beta: Started working on supporting voting on multi-answer polls.  It appears to be working.  Requires the latest & greatest DDLightbarMenu.js (in sbbs\exec\load).  It could still use a little refinement, such as showing the maximum number of votes (and limiting to that) and showing that the user can use the spacebar to select options in the lightbar menu.

Started working on the ability to select multiple items from the menu (which is done with the spacebar).  Multi-item selection is enabled by setting the multiSelect property to true (which is false by default).  In multi-select mode, the GetVal() function will return an array of selected return values rather than a string.  The display of selected items still needs to be worked on..  Right now it will display a check mark next to selected items after the user scrolls away from the item, and the position of the check mark is currently a little wierd, but multi-select is working.

origin line prefixes (so it'll be more obvious to sysops when their tag/origin
line is too long) and beautified the output a bit.

polls either.
If the 'votes=<val>' argument isn't specified, the votes (max votes per ballot)
value is prompted for. This number must be > 1 for multiple-answer polls.

Fix multi-choice poll import (from QWKnet) bug: MaxVotes was used for polls in
(not "votes) in VOTING.DAT file. Oops.

badip.msg wasn't be sent (display to) the IP-blocked user before disconnecting.
This regression was introduced in rev 1.632 of this file when the temp IP-ban
feature was implemented.

Small optimization in the countPollsInSubBoard and subBoardHasPolls functions - Storing the number of messages (msgbase.total_msgs) in a variable before the loop

password string.

password is not prompted for, otherwise, the behavior is the same as before
(the SY: prompt is displayed and the system password must be entered by the
user).

closure of the file. This appears to have just been a typo and the intended
file pointer was text_js (text.js). This bug also meant that TOTAL_TEXT was not
be defined in the generated text.js files.

bbs.login() now accepts 2 additional optional arguments: user_pw and sys_pw
if these passwords are supplied, they won't be prompted for by the underlying C
functions. If the password_prompt argument (2nd arg) is not supplied, no prompt
will be displayed, but a password must still be entered.
The default behavior is the same as before.