Texas site to check voter registration was temporarily down due to heavy web traffic
With Super Tuesday well underway and polls open for a little over two hours, the site for Texans to check if they’re registered to vote was temporarily down throughout the morning.
TXReg.com, the website the Secretary of State’s Office directs Texans to to check their registration status, was down as of 9:30 a.m. A “service unavailable” message appeared when users tried to load the site, along with an HTTP Error 503.
Stephen Chang, a spokesman for the Secretary of State’s Office said in an email that the office was aware and working to restore the site. Around 9:45 a.m. the site was back up and running — but for less than ten minutes before the site was down once again.
In an email, Chang said the repeated website crashes were due to heavy web traffic.
“We are working now to free server space and to restore it to working capacity,” Chang wrote.
The site was back up and running around 10:30 a.m.
In the meantime, voters should refer to their county elections websites, Chang said. In Tarrant County, voters can find election information on Tarrant County’s Elections page, and local residents can check their voter registration status here.
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This story was originally published March 3, 2020 at 10:12 AM.
