From 8b1fc931422e8561eb0dde42ad778af01d04eca6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Ernst <git@dsernst.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2026 01:49:09 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] /vote Submit: Disable adding BLANK to approval IDs, which use
 generated columns

---
 src/vote/SubmitButton.tsx | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/src/vote/SubmitButton.tsx b/src/vote/SubmitButton.tsx
index 6a14fa94..4e021ca4 100644
--- a/src/vote/SubmitButton.tsx
+++ b/src/vote/SubmitButton.tsx
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ export const SubmitButton = ({
               if (state.plaintext[id]) return
               if (item.multiple_votes_allowed) return
               if (item.type === 'ranked-choice-irv') return
+              if (item.type === 'approval') return
 
               dispatch({ [id]: 'BLANK' })
             })