Tens of thousands registered to vote when Florida extended its deadline
More than 40,000 people may have registered to vote in the amount of time the state’s voter registration deadline was extended Tuesday, an attorney representing Florida Secretary of State Laurel Lee told a federal judge Wednesday.
During a hearing over a lawsuit that seeks to extend the voter registration deadline further, Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker pushed the state for details about how many Floridians may have been affected by outages to the state’s online system before the initial deadline of midnight Monday.
The state on Tuesday reopened the registration deadline for several hours. But voter registration groups quickly filed a lawsuit saying at least a two-day extension was needed.
Walker, who moved to quickly schedule a follow-up hearing for Thursday, pressed state officials Wednesday for estimates on how many Floridians were unable to register while the website wasn’t working properly.
Mohammad Jazil, an attorney with the Hopping Green & Sams law firm who is representing Lee, said the state website had 1.1 million visits per hour at the time of its technical problems Monday evening. But those visits could have included every time a person refreshed the site, people tried to check their status, or those wanting to update their voter registration.
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