diff --git a/app/models/poll_option.rb b/app/models/poll_option.rb
index c38af7e59..cb7fcc4b1 100644
--- a/app/models/poll_option.rb
+++ b/app/models/poll_option.rb
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 class PollOption < ApplicationRecord
-  self.ignored_columns = %w[
-    counts_in_tabulation
-  ]
-
   belongs_to :poll
   has_many :poll_votes
 
diff --git a/db/migrate/20200407081312_remove_unused_columns_from_poll_options.rb b/db/migrate/20200407081312_remove_unused_columns_from_poll_options.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2a1dd5856
--- /dev/null
+++ b/db/migrate/20200407081312_remove_unused_columns_from_poll_options.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+class RemoveUnusedColumnsFromPollOptions < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.2]
+  def change
+    safety_assured do
+      remove_column :poll_options, :counts_in_tabulation, :boolean
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/db/schema.rb b/db/schema.rb
index e98cc6d82..c7508422e 100644
--- a/db/schema.rb
+++ b/db/schema.rb
@@ -820,7 +820,6 @@ ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 2020_04_07_091449) do
   end
 
   create_table "poll_options", force: :cascade do |t|
-    t.boolean "counts_in_tabulation"
     t.datetime "created_at", null: false
     t.string "markdown"
     t.bigint "poll_id"