"Monday, August 1 was the last day for Arizonans to register to vote for local primary elections in Phoenix, Tucson, and other cities statewide. It was also one day after a series of strong storms swept the state - including one which took down a state mainframe that houses EZVoter, the online voter registration portal that was the first-of-its-kind in the United States when it was adopted several years go.
Of course, the storm didn't take down the registration deadline; consequently, as reported in The Arizona Republic, voters who wanted to register or change their registration needed to find a paper form and deliver it to a county election official, either in person or by mail."
The Lesson from Arizona's Online Voter Registration Outage: Lightning Often Strikes Twice
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