Quick get started guide for Community Polls

Installing Community Polls

Permission settings – check if you have given create permission to your user group (if you want to create polls from the front end)
Categories – make sure at least one category created
Menu items – Menu items form your urls as well as provide per menu configuration options. It is recommended to create a “Community Polls – Category” menu item for each top-level category and all polls will inherit from them.
Configuration – make sure you checked the configuration and saved it. things to check – poll types allowed, multiple vote restriction methods used

Install the extension using the Joomla installation manager (http://docs.joomla.org/Installing_an_extension)
Go to Extensions -> Community Polls and click on the Options button on the toolbar
Configure the options and permissions. Each option is documented on their labels (mouse over to view the documentation of the options)
Go to Extensions -> Community Polls -> Categories and create your categories
Go to Extensions -> Community Polls -> Polls and create your poll
Go to Menus -> Manage and add a new Menus, you can add all your poll menus in this
For generating better URLs please create menu items for all your top-level categories.
Access polls on the front end using your menu items or publish the Random Poll module.

Go to Components->Community Polls->Polls
Click New button
Enter the poll title, select a category, and enter answers (optionally enter the description and check other options)
Select Published as status if you want to publish the poll immediately.
Click the Save & Close button

Login on the frontend with the user whose user group has created permission given
Access the component using the Community Polls Home menu item you created (see checklist above)
Click the “Submit a Poll” button on the toolbar
Enter poll title, select a category, and enter answers (optionally enter description and check other options)
If the user group is given auto-approve permission, the poll will be published immediately, otherwise, admin users (users in those groups which is selected as admin groups in configuration), will get emails with approval/disapproval links
Publish or unpublish the poll using links in the email. Or you can approve from the backend approval page.

Good luck.