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).

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).

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.

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

Version 0.22 Beta: Updated to display "Loading areas..." when loading the message areas & looking to see which ones have polls.  Also, changed "topic area" verbage to "voting area".

SlyVote v0.21 beta: In the area selection list, added a check mark next to areas that have polls in them.  Also, widened the menu for the poll question and choice lists, since some poll questions and options can have longer text than I had planned for.  Also, removed some temporary text I had put in with the previous version.

Version 1.17 beta 42: When showing tally information for messages with upvotes & downvotes, it now shows who voted on the message (for sysops only).

Version 0.20 Beta: Fixed a bug in the stats display where it was assigning the total_votes in the headers instead of comparing, using an = instead of ==.  Also, updated the stats view to display the stats in a scrollable frame rather than simply dumping out the stats to the screen.

Bug fix - When choosing to vote on polls, it now correctly displays the correct message if the user has voted on all polls or no polls exist in the chosen sub-board.

Version 0.19 beta: Added a configuration option, useAllAvailableSubBoards, which tells SlyVote to use all available sub-boards where voting is enabled.  Defaults to true.  Also, fixed an off-by-1 bug when displaying the list of sub-boards to choose from.  Also, set the (new) ampersandHotkeysInItems property in most of the DDLightbarMenu objects to false so that it won't interpret ampersands before a character in menu items as hotkeys.

Use the same commands as the build system to get our mangled OS-arch format
Add icc and clang compiler prefixes since our build system supports them.
Prefered order: gcc, clang, icc.

Removed DDLightbarMenu.js from this directory, since I've added it to sbbs\exec\load and I only want to maintain one copy of this file.

Version 1.17 beta 41: Bug fix - When submitting an upvote/downvote on a message using the scrollable interface, it was automatically moving to the next message.  Now it stays at the same message and refreshes the screen so that the updated vote count for the message can be seen.

Version 1.17 beta 40: When doing a message search (by text, from name, etc.), now it does not update the last-read & scan pointers.  This way, when the user lists/reads messages in a sub-board as usual, the user will still be where they left off.

Version 1.17 beta 39: Made an adjustment for ANSI content detection for when to convert to Synchronet codes to make the message look okay in ANSI scrolling mode

Version 1.17 beta 38: When searching for messages (by text, from name, to name, or to you), it now uses the get_all_msg_headers() function if that function is available (otherwise, it will fall back to going through all messages one-by-one in the messagebase object).  With the get_all_msg_headers() function, it can get vote tally information so that information can be displayed when viewing the messages.

Version 1.17 beta 37: Added some more checking for ANSI content for certain messages to convert ANSI to Synchronet codes to prevent messages being displayed mangled in the ANSI scrolling interface.

Version 0.18 beta: Fixed a coloring issue when outputting who voted on a poll when more than 1 person voted on it.

Version 1.17 beta 36: Updated the newscan loop to wait 10ms at the end of the loop to avoid causing CPU usage to go high while the newscan loop is running (CPU usage was getting to 99% on my BBS system).  With the 10ms wait, CPU usage went down to 65-70% on my BBS system, so it seems this should help keep the CPU workload from getting so high.

Version 1.17 beta 35: Updated the threshold for the percentage of ANSI codes to convert to Synchronet (& strip out any ANSI that's difficult to convert) rather than display as ANSI (previous was 6%, now 7%), due to a message with ~6.4% ANSI codes.

Version 1.17 beta 34: Updated the way it deals with rogue ANSI codes that seem to be added to certain messages (including cursor movement characters) which probably weren't intended to be there, which can mess up the display of messages when using the scrolling interface.

Version 0.17 beta: Updated one of the error messages, and made a screen drawing optimization when viewing poll results

Version 0.16 beta: Added a main menu option to display poll stats - Lists the polls by highest number of votes (highest first), and for each one, lists the answer(s) with the highest number of votes (highest first).

Version 1.17 beta 33: Improved to better handle message text that starts with "By <name> to <name> on <date>" - Some of those messages have ANSI codes (such as cursor movement codes, etc.) in that part of the text, which can mess up the display of the message when using the scrolling interface.

Version 1.17 beta 32: Fix for some (new) instances where it wasn't checking the sub-board code to see if it was "mail" before checking the can_read property

Added a revision history note for version 1.17 (even though it's still in 'beta').  Also, updated the readme to include some notes on voting, and added a list of lines from text.dat used by the reader.

Version 1.17 beta 31: Added some checks to ensure the user won't be able to read a sub-board if they don't have permission to (if the sub-board's can_read property is false).

Added a section with notes for sysops, which explains where to delete polls from within SlyVote and which text lines from text.dat are used in SlyVote.