A glitch with an online voting system has delayed the results for many of Monday’s province-wide local elections and forced a number of municipalities across Ontario to extend voting hours through until Tuesday night.
More than 50 municipalities across the province experienced technical difficulties with their voting systems thanks to bandwidth issues and overwhelming traffic on the electronic voting company Dominion Voting Systems’ website.
The issue occurred around 6 p.m. Monday night with voters unsuccessfully attempting to cast their ballots online and through mobile devices.
A statement from Dominion Voting’s twitter page says the problem occurred because of “unauthorized action by a colocation provider supporting network connectivity, which should have supported limitless traffic but instead limited traffic for 90 minutes until resolution.” It assures that no security issues were involved and that the problem was fixed within those 90 minutes.
Dominion Voting’s online election system is used by 51 municipalities across Ontario, with all experiencing the technical issue Monday evening. And voters across those municipalities were were not impressed by the glitch.