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Electoral-vote.com Under Heavy Load; Attack?

Posted by timothy on from the get-your-provisioning-on dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Electoral-vote.com (and mirrors electoral-vote2.com through electoral-vote8.com) seem to be very slow at the moment. Votemaster ( A. Tanenbaum) just posted 'All the servers appear to be under attack now, also DNS. I added another large multiprocessor but it doesn't seem to help much. I don't this is going to work. Sorry.' Massive attack or just a large flash crowd? Anybody up for some mirroring so votemaster can concentrate on the polls?" Reader fishwack writes with word that as of 3:46GMT (10:46 PM Eastern time in the U.S.) "the Federal Electoral Commission's Web site is down."

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  1. Florida by Slider · · Score: 1, Troll

    Seeing that this goon webmaster has Florida going to Kerry makes him lose all credibility.

    And even though its irrelevant, I am in Florida.

    1. Re:Florida by Narchie+Troll · · Score: 0, Troll

      He's reporting the polls, dipshit. It's not a by-the-moment prediction. It's an update of the averages of the previous polls.

      And you just called Andrew Tanenbaum a goon. That makes you a fucking idiot.

  2. Does anyone get the feeling by teamhasnoi · · Score: 0, Troll
    that all this election BS - the fraud, the polls, the ads, the intrigue and the tight-race action is just for the new American?

    You know, the reality-TV driven, oh,oh,oh who's winning on 'The Bachelor' tonight, did you hear about 'Survivor' last night person.

    2000 was the first time I ever cared about politics, and I got that feeling then, too.

    Is everyone in the US *truly* this dumb to vote for a guy who has done nothing *for* us and everything *to* us?

    The 2nd Amendment is looking better every day.

  3. Hey! Maybe they're trying to rig the result... by lukestuts · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...again.