The Florida Department of State said Tuesday it is working with state and federal law enforcement to look at whether there were any “deliberate acts against the voting process” that caused or contributed to outages Monday night to the state’s voter registration website.
Secretary of State Laurel Lee said Tuesday morning that the state is “exploring all options” to make sure all eligible people can register to vote in time for the 2020 general election after users encountered slow responses and error messages in the final hours before the registration deadline. Some users have reported being unable to register in time for the deadline.
Lee met with Gov. Ron DeSantis Tuesday morning to brief him on the “challenges we encountered last night due to unprecedented volume and traffic to our website,” Lee said in a statement.
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