Pennsylvania’s online system for registering to vote and applying for and tracking mail ballots crashed over the weekend, triggering an outage that stretched for more than 24 hours and prompted frustration from voters weeks before critical election deadlines.
As of Sunday night, the state’s voter services website, pavoterservices.pa.gov, was still down. State officials said they were working to resolve the issue, which they blamed on an equipment failure at a data center run by an outside contractor. They did not believe any data had been lost or that malicious physical or cyber activity was behind the outage.