How to add polls in magento page

You need to edit app/design/frontend/default/default/layout/poll.xml

<reference name="right">
        <block type="poll/activePoll" name="right.poll">
            <action method="setPollTemplate"><template>poll/active.phtml</template><type>poll</type></action>
            <action method="setPollTemplate"><template>poll/result.phtml</template><type>results</type></action>
        </block>
</reference>

Change referance name as per your requirement. Hope this helps..