> 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?

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On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 10:30 PM, Sean Donelan <s...@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-website-down-outage-mail-in-ballot-november-2020-election-20201004.html

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