Georgia election website goes down for a time during voting

AUGUSTA, Ga. – There was a snag with an important election website right in the middle of voting Tuesday for the Georgia primary.

The Georgia Secretary of State’s MyVoterPage was down for about 45 minutes Tuesday afternoon.

That’s the website where the public can find information about their polling location and download a sample ballot.

Georgia Secretary of State’s Office Chief Operating Officer Gabriel Sterling said the error was due to overprocessing with Salesforce, the software the website runs on.

“It was kind of like when you talk to Comcast and AT&T when something’s going on with your phone,” he said. “They tell you it’ll be five minutes, and you call back in five minutes, and they tell you it’ll be five minutes. Same kind of thing.”

The state is on a path to surpass 1 million ballots cast in the primary, Sterling said.

Going into Tuesday, about 65,000 voters had already cast vote-by-mail absentee ballots, but because of delay issues at Georgia’s U.S. Postal Service locations, officials recommend checking on the Secretary of State’s ballot tracker page to make sure your absentee ballot got to where it needed to go.

That’s the same website that was down for a time on Tuesday.

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