Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline

Tue Oct 6 16:51:39 UTC 2020

Every election has problems. Most of the time, those problems aren't 
noticed. Elections rely on a lot of back-end infrastructure, besides the 
actual voting itself.

It could be a DDOS attack, or simply duct-taped systems having trouble 
with the load.

Voting early (mail, drop-off, in-person) means more time to fix glitches.

https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-election-2020-florida-elections-ron-desantis-dc8aaf2213b6c50451019a7c0c07c3f7

The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned 
elections officials nationwide last week that cyberattacks could disrupt 
their systems during the run-up to the election. They particularly noted 
“distributed denial-of-service” attacks, which inundate a computer system 
with requests, potentially clogging up servers until the system becomes 
inaccessible to legitimate users.