logging to database without applying IP rules to polls?

We were having an issue a while back where a lot of our site’s visitors would see the results without getting to vote, so we changed the logging method from “Logged by Cookie and IP” to “Logged by Cookie” so that users with the same IP address that were geographically close wouldn’t run into this issue.

A ways down the road, we had a user question our data from a recent poll, and when I went to check the log for that poll, it said “No poll logs available for this poll.” I checked the database and see that the last entry in the wp_pollsip table was about the time we changed the logging method.

If the plugin isn’t storing the votes in this table if I have this logging method selected, where can I access the vote data? It really be a much more accurate feature to just log everything in the database but have the admin option instead be about selecting the method to limit votes per IP or cookie or both.