diff --git a/ViewModels/MainViewModel.Chat.cs b/ViewModels/MainViewModel.Chat.cs
index db806a9..42b2d4e 100644
--- a/ViewModels/MainViewModel.Chat.cs
+++ b/ViewModels/MainViewModel.Chat.cs
@@ -50,6 +50,9 @@ public partial class MainViewModel : ViewModelBase
     {
         _chatLayer.OnMessageReceived(message, Scenes);
         _alertLayer.OnMessageReceived(message, Scenes);
+        // Feed the session tallies LAST: the scoreboard counts what the poll decoded, and it only
+        // counts while a session is running (ScoreboardRecorder ignores everything else).
+        _scoreboard.Record(message);
     }
 
     private void UpdateChatBoxPreview(Source chatBox, IReadOnlyList<ChatMessage>? messages = null)