Pennsylvania’s voter services data center outage - 24+ hours
State and local government services are always underfunded. Election depend on heroic election administrators and a lot of duct tape. Its not yet election day, but don't be surprised by all sorts of normal problems and outages on November 3 and after when systems will be under maximum stress. Its not nefarious, just duct tape. There are backup processes, but are less effecient and slower. Pennsylvania's data center supporting several state government services, including elections, has been out of service for over 24 hours. The data center has a uptime reliability of about 94% (and dropping). “While the exact cause is not yet known, there’s no evidence present at this time to suggest any malicious activity,” she said Wednesday. “We will continue, of course, to keep investigating.” https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/pennsylvania-voter-services-websi...
State and local government services are always underfunded. Election depend on heroic election administrators and a lot of duct tape.
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? Sent from ProtonMail Mobile On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 10:30 PM, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
State and local government services are always underfunded. Election depend on heroic election administrators and a lot of duct tape.
Its not yet election day, but don't be surprised by all sorts of normal problems and outages on November 3 and after when systems will be under maximum stress. Its not nefarious, just duct tape. There are backup processes, but are less effecient and slower.
Pennsylvania's data center supporting several state government services, including elections, has been out of service for over 24 hours.
The data center has a uptime reliability of about 94% (and dropping).
“While the exact cause is not yet known, there’s no evidence present at this time to suggest any malicious activity,” she said Wednesday. “We will continue, of course, to keep investigating.”
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/pennsylvania-voter-services-websi...
SERVICE RESTORED The outages began late Saturday and the voting services were restored at about 7 a.m. Monday. Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar said the problem has been with a contractor’s equipment and there was no evidence of “malicious interference.” The outage also affected online services for the Revenue and Human Services departments. https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-voting-archive-voting-2020-7e82f5409...
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