On the page where you create a poll, there's a link that says "Formatting Hints." That link takes you to https://ifdb.org/help-formatting , which says
<A HREF="url"> ... </A> - hyperlink the text between the <A> and </A> to any Web site. (For safety reasons, Javascript isn't allowed. The URL must start with http://, ftp://, or news:.)
On the page where you create a poll, there's a link that says "Formatting Hints." That link takes you to https://ifdb.org/help-formatting , which says
<A HREF="url"> ... </A> - hyperlink the text between the <A> and </A> to any Web site. (For safety reasons, Javascript isn't allowed. The URL must start with http://, ftp://, or news:.)
This list should probably include https.