Pennsylvania’s voter services data center outage - 24+ hours

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

State and local government services are always underfunded. Election 
depend on heroic election administrators and a lot of duct tape.

Its not yet election day, but don't be surprised by all sorts of normal 
problems and outages on November 3 and after when systems will be under 
maximum stress.  Its not nefarious, just duct tape.  There are backup 
processes, but are less effecient and slower.



Pennsylvania's data center supporting several state government services, 
including elections, has been out of service for over 24 hours.

The data center has a uptime reliability of about 94% (and dropping).

“While the exact cause is not yet known, there’s no evidence present at 
this time to suggest any malicious activity,” she said Wednesday. “We will 
continue, of course, to keep investigating.”

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/pennsylvania-voter-services-website-down-outage-mail-in-ballot-november-2020-election-20201004.html