2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWaPo: Voter registration system crashes in VA, prompting lawsuit to extend registration deadline
"RICHMOND A civil rights group filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday to force Virginia to extend its voter registration period after the states online system crashed Monday, the last day to register, preventing an unknown number of voters from getting on the rolls.
One registrar estimated that tens of thousands of Virginians had been unable to register by the cutoff at 11:59 p.m. Monday, although the state elections commissioner, Edgardo Cortés, said the number was unknown.
The meltdown prompted a Washington-based civil rights group to file the lawsuit on behalf of Kathy and Michael Kern, a Charlottesville couple who tried multiple times Sunday and Monday to register without success. Two nonprofit groups involved in voter-registration drives New Virginia Majority Education Fund and Virginia Civic Engagement Table also are plaintiffs.
The right of eligible Virginians to vote should not be victim to a technological failure that is no fault of their own, said Kristen Clarke, president of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, which is representing the plaintiffs along with attorneys from the Washington firm Arnold & Porter..."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/voter-registration-system-crashes-in-va-preventing-some-from-signing-up-in-time/2016/10/18/5336f1ae-9558-11e6-9b7c-57290af48a49_story.html?hpid=hp_local-news_vavote-530pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
spooky3
(34,456 posts)commenters to the article are wondering whether the sites were hacked, or if the system wasn't designed to deal with inevitable and foreseeable spikes. I just can't imagine Republicans doing that...
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)I get a 2.5-3.0 MB log every day on my server. Imagine what DU has. With good analytic software, one can derive a lot of information just from logs. An outage is plainly obvious, as are attempted intrusions, dns attacks, bad requests, etc.
Cha
(297,244 posts)who aren't able to Vote due to Technical Breakdowns!
Democat
(11,617 posts)More like the Republicans shut it down to try to stop Democrats from winning.
spooky3
(34,456 posts)WaPo.