Michigan: Wayne County Board of Canvassers will dig into election night website issues | Michigan Radio
The Wayne County Board of Canvassers wants to know what went wrong with the county’s election website during last week’s primary. The board is expected to meet Monday with the CEO of ElectionSource, the Grand Rapids-based company that runs the county’s election results reporting website, to try and get answers. As returns started coming in Tuesday night, it was clear the website was having problems. Some initial results were reported incorrectly, causing inexplicable fluctuations and leading many to doubt whether the numbers could be trusted at all. And the website shut down altogether for several hours during the night, before coming back online Wednesday morning. County elections officials insist the vote count was always accurate. ElectionSource blamed the problems on software glitches that resulted from too-large data files, and too much web traffic overwhelming data uploads.