3rd party voting on dpoll

voting.py

import json
import uuid

import requests
from steem import Steem
from steem.transactionbuilder import TransactionBuilder
from steembase import operations

# configuration

voter = "<voter_username>"
s = Steem(keys=["<private_key>"])
poll_author = "steemalliance"
poll_permlink = "steem-alliance-structure-proposal-election"
votes = [
    '“DeCentraSteem” Submitted By @impactn',
]

ops = [
    operations.Comment(**{
        "author": voter,
        "body": 'Voted for \n - %s' % votes[0],
        "permlink": str(uuid.uuid4()),
        "parent_permlink": poll_permlink,
        "parent_author": poll_author,
        "json_metadata": json.dumps({
            "content_type": "poll_vote",
            "votes": votes,
            "tags": ["dpoll", ]
        }),
        "title": "",
    }),
]

tb = TransactionBuilder()
tb.appendOps(ops)
tb.appendSigner(voter, "posting")
tb.sign()
resp = s.broadcast_transaction_synchronous(tb)

# trigger dpoll to register the vote it's own database
r = requests.get("https://dpoll.xyz/web-api/sync", params={
    "block_num": resp["block_num"],
    "trx_id": resp["id"]
})

print(r.text)