Politics & Government
After Election Night Website Outage, DuPage Pledges Improvements
County officials said that the amount of traffic caught them by surprise and hampered the ability of the public to access election results.
Officials for DuPage County are saying that the influx of traffic to their election results website, which crashed the page between 8 and 10 p.m. on Tuesday night, has been a wake-up call to necessary improvements, the Chicago Tribune reports.
According to the paper, the problem was caused when the available bandwidth was exceeded; page views peaked at 15,000 within a few minutes, 5,000 more than the peak in the 2012 elections.
"If you asked me 72 hours ago if the site would peak out 50 percent higher than a presidential election, I would've laughed," Robert Saar, the election commission's executive director, told the paper.
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"Everybody here had their eyes opened. We're disappointed that it happened, but I'm extremely confident that going forward, we'll be on top of this thing."
Turnout for the election in DuPage was reported at just under 19 percent, the paper said.
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