Georgia Flooded With Complaints Over Crashed Election Website

Republican congressional candidate Rick Allen, right, votes at Woodlawn United Methodist Church in Augusta, Ga., Tuesday morning Nov. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/The Augusta Chronicle, Michael Holahan)
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The Georgia Secretary of State’s election website crashed on Tuesday and stayed down for several hours on Tuesday, The New York Times reported.

The site is where people can get information on where their polling site is or register to vote.

Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s (R) office stressed just a part of the website was down for a portion of the day.

“Our website was not down, just one portion of it: the MVP —the My Voter Page, where voters can go on and put in their information and sample ballots, see their polling place, things like that. That was down intermittently for a couple of hours. It was fully restored by 10:30 and is working just fine right now,” Kemp Chief of Staff Jared Thomas said to TPM.

The voter protection group, Election Protection, said it received 778 calls before mid day from frustrated voters about the down website.

“It inconvenienced a lot of voters,” Bryan Thomas, the communications director for state Sen. Jason Carter’s (D) gubernatorial campaign told TPM. “We worked really hard to make sure that any voters that reached out to us got proper information about where their polling information is.”

Bryan Thomas estimated that the site had been down for a couple hours.

This post was updated.

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  1. Oh i am sure the Georgia Secretary of State’s office, was really working hard on getting it back up.

  2. “Crashed.”

    Yeah, that’s the ticket!

    <fuck these stupid “body too similar” messages>

  3. I’ll bet you $100 that when accusations that the GOP/Teatrolls who run GA get accused of nefarious ploys for this, they will instantly defend themselves by yelling and screaming about the ACA website.

  4. Avatar for imkmu3 imkmu3 says:

    An 8.5MB image? Guys, thumbnails. xnconvert will do it in a snap for any format. Woe is anyone on a metered service that uses TPM often.

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