MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Aweb site that Minnesotans can use to trace their absentee ballots went down for greater than an hour Saturday morning, together with different components of the state’s on-line voter registration system, with simply three days to go till the Nov. three election.

The issue was an obvious {hardware} situation impacting the net instruments for voters and a few performance within the Statewide Voter Registration System, mentioned Risikat Adesaogun, a spokeswoman for Secretary of State Steve Simon. However she mentioned the programs had been restored by round 10:15 a.m.

The poll monitoring web site, mnvotes.org/monitor, has seen an surge of use as a file variety of Minnesotans vote early this 12 months. However these trying Saturday morning to verify whether or not their poll had been acquired and counted encountered an error message till the issue was solved.

Traces shaped at quite a lot of early voting facilities on Saturday morning as Minnesotans heeded the decision to drop off their absentee ballots in individual, as a substitute of mailing them in; or to vote early; or to vote in individual Tuesday following a federal court docket ruling Thursday that left the door open to challenges of the validity of mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, even when they’re postmarked by Tuesday.

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