&gt;&nbsp;<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: -apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">State and local government services are always underfunded. Election&nbsp;<caret></caret></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: -apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">depend on heroic election administrators and a lot of duct tape.</span><div><font face="-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"></span><font face="-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Fair enough. I can buy that. Where will the detailed COE be posted so the people can have a clear understanding of what happened here?<br></span></font><div><br></div><div id="protonmail_signature_block" class="protonmail_signature_block"><div></div></div> <div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="protonmail_mobile_signature_block"><div>Sent from ProtonMail Mobile</div></div> <div><br></div><div><br></div>On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 10:30 PM, Sean Donelan &lt;<a href="mailto:sean@donelan.com" class="">sean@donelan.com</a>&gt; wrote:<blockquote class="protonmail_quote" type="cite">  State and local government services are always underfunded. Election<br>depend on heroic election administrators and a lot of duct tape.<br><br>Its not yet election day, but don't be surprised by all sorts of normal<br>problems and outages on November 3 and after when systems will be under<br>maximum stress.  Its not nefarious, just duct tape.  There are backup<br>processes, but are less effecient and slower.<br><br><br><br>Pennsylvania's data center supporting several state government services,<br>including elections, has been out of service for over 24 hours.<br><br>The data center has a uptime reliability of about 94% (and dropping).<br><br>“While the exact cause is not yet known, there’s no evidence present at<br>this time to suggest any malicious activity,” she said Wednesday. “We will<br>continue, of course, to keep investigating.”<br><br>https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/pennsylvania-voter-services-website-down-outage-mail-in-ballot-november-2020-election-20201004.html<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>