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Computerworld reports: Election monitors and technology experts at Verified Voting Foundation Inc. expected that their Election Incident Reporting System (EIRS) would be a popular source of information about voting mishaps as millions of U.S. citizens took to the polls in yesterday's presidential election -- but maybe not quite so popular.
Besieged by requests for access to its sophisticated database of field reports of voting irregularities from across the nation, the public face of EIRS, www.voteprotect.org, slowed to a crawl on Election Day. By yesterday afternoon, systems administrators were rushing to bring additional servers online to accommodate the crush of activity, according to Will Doherty, executive director of the Verified Voting Foundation.
EIRS was hastily created by a collection of groups including VerifiedVoting.org Inc. and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility to help voter-protection organizations identify and respond to voting irregularities, according to the Verified Voting Web site.
The system was developed in a "code sprint" during June and July and was used for the first time for the primary election in Florida on Aug. 31. Hot-line operators at call centers in Florida and the District of Columbia recorded about 300 incidents at polls that day, according to the Web site. -- Surge in interest clogs election monitoring Web site - Computerworld