How do you make an 'enum' that has data tied to it?

Question

I have a Vote class and one of the properties it can have is a vote type. Such as unanimous, a 3/4 vote, a simply majority, etc. Each type needs to have a string associated with

Answer 1

You could create a "constant" dictionary (or rather readonly static, since you can't create a constant dictionary) around your Enum.

public enum VoteType { Unanimous = 1, SimpleMajority = 2, ... }

public static readonly Dictionary VoteDescriptions = new Dictionary
{
    { VoteType.Unanimous, "Unanimous description" },
    { VoteType.SimpleMajority, "Simple majority" },
    ...
};