Update: 7:42 p.m. 8/21/2024:
The vendor for most of Florida’s supervisor of elections websites says a logging error was responsible for the outages that occurred on Election Night.
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Original Story: A single county may have been responsible for knocking off most of the local supervisor of elections websites on Election Night. Despite that, many were still able to get their returns reported out to both the state and the public.
In a statement, the Clay County Supervisor of Elections office noted it too was impacted by the outage and said "We are aware that our website has timed out. Our vendor is currently working to fix the statewide outage."
Leon Supervisor of Elections Mark Earley says the outage may have stemmed from the fact that most of the local websites share a common vendor.
“And they’ve [the vendor] got a very resilient platform. I think it’s taken everyone by surprise that something that one county implemented—that seems to have been misconfigured or did something," brought the rest of the counties down, he said.
LeonVotes.org was among the sites that went down. By 9 p.m., that site was re-routed to a general one with links to other local supervisors of elections returns.
Several counties, including Leon and Clay, sent out alternative links to access local returns.
