On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, Mike Hammett wrote:
How many of these overloaded web sites that we hear about (voter
registration, unemployment registration, web sites announced in a big way,
causing surges in traffic, etc.) have a CDN offloading the low-hanging
fruit?
Florida uses a CDN, like essentially all states.
There is also lot of duct-tape, inadequate funding and human error across
all states (and probably no different for governments world-wide). I see
problems with overloaded state/local emergency alert sites all the time.
Periods of extreme stress is when many systems break. Its not
necessarily due to malfeasance or malicious. Expect there will be
problems with election infrastructure through Election Day, and
afterwards. I fully expect US state/local election administrators to
make it work this time too (eventually, maybe a few days or weeks).
Be on the look out for clever nefarious actors.
But the dumb mistake is the more likely explanation for most problems.
And in either case, Murphy's Law applies. Have a backup plan because
things will go wrong.
