[gordondavidf]

I work in election night reporting. While it’s easy to assume malice, so often it’s just that election officials haven’t entirely thought things through. It’s not an easy job and in the past 4 years, positions no one has cared about are being scrutinized by the whole US and election technical teams now have to worry about election interference from foreign governments. And all of their work comes down to one day where anything that can go wrong does.

Sure it’s possible that this was a voter suppression attempt as I’m seeing in the comments. But much more likely they found a last minute bug that would have screwed them on Election Day, so they took the site down.

There are much more effective ways to stop people from voting. See https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/10/20/politics/gwinnett-county-...

[Swenrekcah]

Hopefully it's not malice. But then it needs to be communicated. If the issue is a bug that needs fixing, say so. Don't say scheduled maintainance if it isn't.

Like Facebook, at some point organizations lose the benefit of the doubt.