Problems with Voting

I thought it would be a nice, quiet day on the election front. No campaigning, no problems. I was wrong.

About two hours ago, the chair of the BOE said via Twitter that the link for voting on my.american.edu wasn't showing up for some people, making it impossible for them to vote. He followed up by saying that the Office of Information Technology was looking into it, and that anybody having issues voting should call them at 202.885.2550.

However, some very quick investigation seems to suggest that OIT is not around and this point in the evening, thus leading me to believe that the problem may not be fixed anytime soon.

Even if the problem gets fixed, this could have the potential to taint the results of the election, depending on how many people experienced this issue.

This type of thing seems to always come up. I remember last year that Andy's name didn't appear on the ballot in the morning or something silly like that.