Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut

Tue Oct 20 12:03:12 UTC 2020

In my experiences with both government IT and elections departments, funding may be a problem, but a definite problem is an unwillingness to relieve poorly performing staff. They could be doing so much better with the funding they have. 

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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

The Brothers WISP 

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From: "Rich Kulawiec" <rsk at gsp.org> 
To: nanog at nanog.org 
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2020 11:58:23 AM 
Subject: Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut 

On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 07:44:01PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote: 
> In the USA, absent clear and convincing evidence otherwise, I expect any 
> outages will be due to the normal things that cause outages on election day. 

One of those things is the chronic underfunding of the systems/personnel 
involved. (This isn't the case everywhere of course but it's the case in 
a lot of places.) This leads to operations that are working -- barely -- 
and thus not resistant to stress, outages, and mistakes. 

We could argue that given the criticality of this particular function 
that resources should be more generously allocated, but unfortunately 
that's often an unsuccessful argument. 

---rsk 

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