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Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 13:48:34 -0400 (EDT)
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): 13,536,830Florida 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:
no indication of a DoS attack. __________________ Justin Paine He/Him/His Head of Trust & Safety 101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107 PGP: BBAA 6BCE 3305 7FD6 6452 7115 57B6 0114 DE0B 314D
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- Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline Sean Donelan (Oct 06)
- Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline Justin Paine via NANOG (Oct 06)
- Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline Sean Donelan (Oct 06)
- Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline Constantine A. Murenin (Oct 07)
- Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline Eric Litvin (Oct 07)
- Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline Valdis Klētnieks (Oct 09)
- Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline Sean Donelan (Oct 06)
- Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline Justin Paine via NANOG (Oct 06)
- Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline Mike Hammett (Oct 06)
- Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline Tom Beecher (Oct 06)
- Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline Sean Donelan (Oct 06)
- Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline Alain Hebert (Oct 07)
- Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline Sean Donelan (Oct 07)