Casting a vote on an issue

The most straightforward way to express your interest in a Jira issue is to vote for it. For organizations or teams that manage their priorities based on popularity, voting is a great mechanism for collecting this information.

An example of this is how Atlassian uses Jira (https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-9) as a way to let its customers choose and vote for the features they want to be implemented or bugs to be fixed by voting on issues based on their needs. This allows the product management and marketing team to have an insight into market needs and how to best evolve their offerings.

One thing to keep in mind when voting is that you can only vote once per issue. You can vote many times for many different ...

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