From e682e1ecce33417f8410e71bd58d385c47e37c5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Dong <jdong@mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:09:31 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fix crasher when nil is passed to ident_to_quickvote

---
 app/models/quick_vote.rb | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/app/models/quick_vote.rb b/app/models/quick_vote.rb
index c427b98..ce4a4fb 100644
--- a/app/models/quick_vote.rb
+++ b/app/models/quick_vote.rb
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ class QuickVote < Election
 
   ### Convert a shortname or id into a QuickVote
   def self.ident_to_quickvote(ident)
+    return nil unless ident
     if ident.match(/^\d+$/)
       quickvote = QuickVote.find(ident)
     else
-- 
2.39.5