Move Poll

My users were complaining that it seemed the first post was a comment rather than an explanation of part of the poll. So I tried to move the poll into the first post of the thread, which everyone thought looks better, but I have the issue that no one can vote! It allows submission of the vote, but nothing is recorded. Any ideas?

{{$topic   = \IPS\forums\Topic::load( \IPS\Request::i()->id );}}

{{if $poll = $topic->getPoll() AND $comment->mapped('first')}}
	{$poll|raw}
{{endif}}