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Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2020 19:44:01 -0400 (EDT)
To keep this on topic, no mention of any candidate or political party. Networks can impact elections, and elections can impact network operators.If @netblocks <www.netblocks.org> publishes a special report about your country's elections, that's a huge indicator of network (and election) problems. In the 1950's, often the first indication something was happening was the national radio station in a country suddenly started playing uninterrupted classical music. Now the modern equivalent is when mobile networks stop working and social media sites are blocked in a country.
There are many day-to-day causes of network problems. I don't expect backhoes to stop cutting fiber cables on election day. I don't expect network engineers to stop making mistakes on election day. I don't expect software bugs to stop occurring on election day.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.
If you do experience an outage, you probably want to have your P.R. people on call for a quicker than normal response.
Current thread:
- Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut, (continued)
- Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut Christopher Morrow (Oct 13)
- Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut Sean Donelan (Oct 13)
- Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut Christopher Morrow (Oct 13)
- Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut Valdis Klētnieks (Oct 13)
- Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut Sean Donelan (Oct 15)
- Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut Alain Hebert (Oct 16)
- Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut Mark Andrews (Oct 16)
- Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut Don Gould (Oct 20)
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- Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut Alain Hebert (Oct 19)
- Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut Sean Donelan (Oct 13)
- Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut Christopher Morrow (Oct 13)
- RE: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut Keith Medcalf (Oct 17)
- Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut Sean Donelan (Oct 17)
- Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut Rich Kulawiec (Oct 19)
- Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut Mike Hammett (Oct 20)
- Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut Tom Beecher (Oct 19)
- Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut Warren Kumari (Oct 14)