Ron DeSantis is extending the state’s voter registration deadline after heavy traffic crashed the state’s online system and potentially prevented thousands of enrolling to cast ballots in next month’s presidential election.
Florida Secretary of State Laurel Lee says the online registration system “was accessed by an unprecedented 1.1 million requests per hour” during the last few hours of Monday.
Sarah Dinkins, a Florida State University student, tried to help her younger sister register Monday night.
From a broken unemployment website to a glitchy voter registration website— we need these systems to work for Floridians, not cause stress and delays.
“Last night, we experienced an extremely high volume of traffic to the Online Voter Registration System,” Lee said.