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Did A Tweet From Ariana Grande Cause The Voter Registration Site To Crash?

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A tweet form Ariana Grande encouraging followers to vote in Florida was thought to have caused the voter registration website crash on Monday. The singer tweeted out and posted on Instagram encouraging her millions of followers and fellow Floridians to register to vote.

Officials looked into whether or not her tweet led to millions of people to flood the voter registration website Monday. However, Florida’s chief information officer says misconfigured servers were to blame for the crash. Once technicians fixed the issue, the site was able to handle the traffic, which at one point spiked to over 1-million hits per hour.

Thousands of Floridians had issues on the voter registration website Monday leading up to the 11:59pm deadline to register. The deadline had been extended to Tuesday at 7pm, but some groups have now filed a lawsuit claiming they were not given enough notice of the deadline extension. They want an extra two days to register to vote in the November 3rd election. A decision on another deadline extension could be made today.

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