Virginia’s voter registration site goes offline on deadline date
October 13, 2020 | website | No Comments


The outage was caused by a broken cable near the Commonwealth Enterprise Solutions Center.
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This story is part of Elections 2020, CNET’s coverage of the run-up to voting in November.
The last chance to register to vote in Virginia will have to be offline, after a severed cable took the state’s voter registration website down on Tuesday. It’s the last day to register to vote in the state, but the outage could potentially lock out thousands of voters.
Election officials already anticipated a surge of voters for the 2020 presidential race, many of whom would be registering online because of the coronavirus pandemic. While its website is down, Virginia’s department of elections is encouraging people to register to vote by printing out a paper application.