Secretary of State Tom Schedler says he and his staff are looking into what crashed their website, which slowed results on election night. If you were paying attention to the races this past weekend, you probably noticed when the Secretary of State’s website shut down. Everyone, including the news media, couldn’t get the numbers they needed.
Schedler says it had to do with the amount of people accessing the website with smartphones. He says with people checking on the elections inside and outside the state, the website was bound to crash.
“Think about it, everyone that has a smart phone now is in there refreshing every second, and it is causing total chaos to the system,” said Schedler. “We’ve never experienced a problem like this before, and hopefully we never will (again).”
The Secretary of State went onto say that one of the possible solutions would be to make two separate websites – one to accommodate the media, and one for the general public.
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