Secretary of State ‘blames overload of cloud computing’ for crash of vote-result system
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The normal tension of election night was ratcheted up Tuesday when the Secretary of State’s website showing election returns was overloaded with traffic, so that many people were having trouble calling up election results even after 10 p.m.
The state agency, which has notoriously had problems with its computers, put up an alternative posting of all election results while it tried to work out the problems, according to spokeswoman Nicole Winger.
The state was using a ‘cloud computing’ system in which at least 50 servers outside the Secretary of State’s office were being used to manage the heavy traffic.
‘The traffic to the website has been exponentially higher than what was even projected’ by the state’s IT experts, she said. ‘The traffic basically blew up the cloud.’ She said web traffic at the Secretary of State’s site was higher than experienced during the last presidential election.
Former Rep. Gov. Pete Wilson cited the ‘crash’ of the Secretary of State’s computer site as one reason results were slow in coming in the governor’s race.
-- Patrick McGreevy in Sacramento
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