Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline

Tue Oct 6 17:48:34 UTC 2020

Florida has had notoriously unreliable state I.T. infrastructure for 
years. Florida's unemployment websites were broken for months during the 
Spring 2020 COVID unemployment demand surge.  So its very likely crappy 
state I.T. infrastructure problems being stressed by high volume.

Florida voting age population (2016): 15,839,713
Florida registered voters (2016): 12,863,773
Florida registered voters (2019): 13,536,830

Florida Secretary of State Laurel Lee, who oversees the voting system, 
said the online registration system “was accessed by an unprecedented 1.1 
million requests per hour” during the last few hours of Monday.

On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, Justin Paine wrote:

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