Florida residents who want to vote in November's election had until 12 a.m. Tuesday to register.
The ACLU of Florida tweeted that the state's online voter registration system"has a suspect history of crashing just before key deadlines."
Florida State Department spokesman Mark Ard had said in June that the department had"rigorously tested" the online voter registration site and was confident the system would be able to handle the number of Florida residents registering to vote or updating their voter registrations before the August and November elections, according toThe newspaper noted that Ard did not respond to specific questions about the site's capacity at the time.
"History is repeating itself, and Florida voters continue to bear the burden of ineptitude as a result of negligence," Ashwell added.
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