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Technical Lags at North Carolina State Board of Elections Delay Poll Results

According to a statement, the results website was encountering intermittent outages and updating lags, and the board was working with the State Office of Information Technology to increase bandwidth and resolve the display errors.

A crowd gathered at the Shelby, N.C., Cleveland Volunteer Fire Station to watch Tuesday's election results as they came in. But, after votes from 16 of 21 precincts were in, updates ceased.

For more than an hour, only 76 percent of county precincts were reporting results.

The State Board of Elections issued a statement saying the results website was encountering intermittent outages and updating lags. According to the statement, the board of elections was working with the State Office of Information Technology to increase bandwidth and resolve the display errors.

According to Dayna Causby, director of elections at the Cleveland County Board of Elections, each time new results came to the county board, the website took about 30 to 45 minutes before the results started to make it through the website and begin the process of updating results.

“We regret the inconvenience these intermittent outages have caused,” said Executive Director Kim Westbrook Strach of the State Board of Elections. “We are working to resolve these issues.”

The issues have since been fixed.

©2014 The Star (Shelby, N.C.)