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6 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Hours before the original registration deadline, Florida's online voter registration system crashed.

Documents we obtained show significant issues with Florida’s OVR system in 2018. Why weren’t these issues fixed in the past two years? americanoversight.org/new-documents-…
The 2018 documents show pages upon pages of prospective-voter complaints about apparent technology and user interface errors with Florida’s OVR system, as well as concerns from local county election supervisors about the tool.
“PLEASE FIX THIS,” one Floridian implored on July 24, 2018. “THIS IS RIDICULOUS.” Yet, the system encountered the same sort of chaos yesterday, on the registration deadline.
Recent tech issues within the Florida government, including the failure of its unemployment system to handle the crush of pandemic claims and even hiccups with OVR earlier this year, have made watchdogs rightfully wary.

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