Florida residents now have until 7 p.m. ET on Tuesday to register to vote, after the deadline was briefly extended.
Voters cast ballots in the presidential election at a polling center in Miami, Fla., on Nov. 8, 2016.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis briefly extended the state's Tuesday voter registration deadline hours after its website crashed in the final hours of availability.
Florida residents now have until 7 p.m. ET on Tuesday to register online or in-person, Secretary of State Laurel Lee said in an email. Voters who tried to visit the Florida Department of State website on Monday night were greeted with a message from Cloudflare, a cybersecurity company that specializes in mitigating attacks from hackers who try to knock sites offline with a massive influx of traffic. The voter registration site received 1.1 million visitors an hour, Lee said.
But Cloudflare’s CEO, Matthew Prince, said that increased traffic to election sites Monday night didn’t appear to be an attack. “Traffic up, but that’s to be expected as people are legitimately registering to vote,” Prince said in a text message Monday evening. “As of now, no indications of malicious traffic to any of the voter registration sites we help protect.”
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