Voter registration websites are crashing, locking out would-be voters

Earlier this month, the calls, many from swing states, started coming in to the Election Protection hotline, a service administered by the Voting Rights Project of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C. From Florida, callers said the voter registration website had collapsed, locking them out just as the deadline for registering to vote approached. A week later, more reports of stymied voters came in, this time from Virginia. On the last day of registration there, the registration site went totally down. Ryan Snow, a legal fellow at the Voting Rights Project, said this…

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