Governor of Florida. Ron de Santis extended the state’s voter registration deadline on Tuesday after unexpected and unexpected heavy traffic crashed the state’s online system and prevented thousands from voting in next month’s presidential election.
Dissenters extended the deadline, which ended on Monday, to EDT on Tuesday at 7 p.m. Registration In addition to online registration, the Dispensary has directed the Election, Motor Vehicle and Tax Collectors offices to remain open till 7 pm local time for anyone wishing to register.
“You may have the best site in the world, but sometimes there are swings,” Desentes said during a press conference at The Villages, a retired community in Central Florida. “If 500,000 people land at the same time, it creates a hurdle.”
The state is investigating why its voter registration system crashed on Monday, an unexpectedly heavy traffic that could not be immediately explained during the shutdown.
Florida 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” over the past few hours on Monday.
“We are exploring all options to ensure that all eligible registrants have the ability to register to vote and that there was no intentional act against the voting process, together with our state and federal law enforcement partners,” Lee said in a statement. Will work. ” . “We will issue an update as soon as possible.”
Lee tweeted on Monday that some users experienced a delay of about 15 minutes when trying to register due to the high volume, but their capacity was increased.
The civil rights group is threatening to sue if the governor does not extend the deadline. The committee of legal attorneys under the law said the breach would unfairly deprive the president and other offices of thousands of ballots.
The group’s president, Kristen Clark, said: “We will not be fooled by stupidity.” She said the group sued Virginia in 2016 after its computer system crashed before the deadline, winning an extension to register thousands of additional voters.
Democrats across the state have pushed for an extension.
“Not planning for voter registration growth is voter repression. Not everyone who wants to register is voter repression. Not extending the deadline is voter repression,” said Florida’s Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services and the state’s highest-ranking Democrat.
“This is a recent attempt by Republican leaders in Florida to limit democracy. The Florida voter registration website that did not work on the last day to vote in Florida is reprehensible voter repression. Fix the website, stop the repression and let democracy work,” said the Florida Democratic Party president. , Terry Rizo said in a statement.
U.S. Rep. Debbie Washerman Schultz said the government’s inability to allow the state voter registration website to be dismantled on the last day for next November’s election is, unfortunately, completely credible, “said U.S. Rep. Debbie Washerman Schultz. “His administrative incompetence in managing the state’s unemployment system has fueled today’s business ambiguity. However, this particular mistake informs the persistent pattern of voter repression that has become infamous for the governor.”
Florida State University student Sarah Dinkins tried to help her younger sister enroll Monday night. They started trying around 9pm and by 10:30 pm they were not successful.
He said, “I am very disappointed. “If the voting website doesn’t work, potentially fewer people will be able to vote democratic voters.”
This is not the first major computer shutdown affecting the state government this year. By the spring of June, thousands of Florida people who had lost their jobs due to the coronavirus epidemic could not file for unemployment benefits due to frequent crashes through a flooded computer system, delays in their payments. Descentis replaced the director overseeing the system but blamed the problems on his predecessor, fellow Republican Rick Scott, who is now a U.S. senator.
NBC6’s Julia Bagg has more on what officials say while some claim she may be denied registration due to problems.
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