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Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 17:56:57 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, Mike Hammett wrote:
How many of these overloaded web sites that we hear about (voter registration, unemployment registration, web sites announced in a big way, causing surges in traffic, etc.) have a CDN offloading the low-hanging fruit?
Florida uses a CDN, like essentially all states.There is also lot of duct-tape, inadequate funding and human error across all states (and probably no different for governments world-wide). I see problems with overloaded state/local emergency alert sites all the time.
Periods of extreme stress is when many systems break. Its not necessarily due to malfeasance or malicious. Expect there will be problems with election infrastructure through Election Day, and afterwards. I fully expect US state/local election administrators to
make it work this time too (eventually, maybe a few days or weeks). Be on the look out for clever nefarious actors. But the dumb mistake is the more likely explanation for most problems.And in either case, Murphy's Law applies. Have a backup plan because things will go wrong.
Current thread:
- 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)