{"id":415026,"date":"2021-04-12T17:58:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T21:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=415026"},"modified":"2021-04-12T17:58:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T21:58:25","slug":"virginia-shuts-down-elections-site-ahead-of-key-republican-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-shuts-down-elections-site-ahead-of-key-republican-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Shuts Down Elections Site Ahead of Key Republican Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvirginia-shuts-down-elections-site-ahead-of-key-republican-deadline%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=415026&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.821989528796\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Voters left unable to register for convention due to &#8216;scheduled maintenance&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"735\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1563.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1562.jpeg 735w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Voters-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Voters-702x491.jpg 702w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/>\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/matthew-foldi\/\" title=\"Posts by Matthew Foldi\" rel=\"author\" class=\"text-red-700\">Matthew Foldi<\/a> \u2022 April 12, 2021 5:42 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"92.800637958533\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Virginia&#8217;s Department of Elections shut down its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elections.virginia.gov\/registration\/view-your-info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/mailtrack.io\/trace\/link\/ac4b064dc4c167cff6b605d5d81c55cc27cfb833?url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.elections.virginia.gov%252Fregistration%252Fview-your-info%252F%26userId%3D6348687%26signature%3D5d2f81e5981df42b&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1618342120314000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFp1YlEu4PFJeBAu4ySfCJvQqPWqg\">voter information portal<\/a> for &#8220;scheduled maintenance&#8221; during the final day Republican voters in the commonwealth&#8217;s largest county were able to register for the party&#8217;s upcoming convention.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The website was taken down on April 9, a day before the April 10 deadline for Republicans in Fairfax County to register to participate in next month&#8217;s nominating convention. When voters attempted to locate their required voter number on the state government&#8217;s website, an error page read, &#8220;We are in the process of performing updates to the Citizen Portal. Due to these changes, the Citizen Portal is temporarily unavailable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1464747\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-17.png\" alt width=\"1600\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/t_W74r_4_CNE5tb2MXW6W_qj_kmKURssQTaCf2lOrqpQ3uBhtNJfbrvA1eqQd5IESKFUykapCWZTS9azN6szgK7PZqOLiP8lPZFy6kVwEZfrZg4ZvACZBe1rQ4b8C8GWxdT3ERuX.png 1600w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/t_W74r_4_CNE5tb2MXW6W_qj_kmKURssQTaCf2lOrqpQ3uBhtNJfbrvA1eqQd5IESKFUykapCWZTS9azN6szgK7PZqOLiP8lPZFy6kVwEZfrZg4ZvACZBe1rQ4b8C8GWxdT3ERuX-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/t_W74r_4_CNE5tb2MXW6W_qj_kmKURssQTaCf2lOrqpQ3uBhtNJfbrvA1eqQd5IESKFUykapCWZTS9azN6szgK7PZqOLiP8lPZFy6kVwEZfrZg4ZvACZBe1rQ4b8C8GWxdT3ERuX-768x290.png 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/t_W74r_4_CNE5tb2MXW6W_qj_kmKURssQTaCf2lOrqpQ3uBhtNJfbrvA1eqQd5IESKFUykapCWZTS9azN6szgK7PZqOLiP8lPZFy6kVwEZfrZg4ZvACZBe1rQ4b8C8GWxdT3ERuX-1024x387.png 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/t_W74r_4_CNE5tb2MXW6W_qj_kmKURssQTaCf2lOrqpQ3uBhtNJfbrvA1eqQd5IESKFUykapCWZTS9azN6szgK7PZqOLiP8lPZFy6kVwEZfrZg4ZvACZBe1rQ4b8C8GWxdT3ERuX-1400x529.png 1400w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/t_W74r_4_CNE5tb2MXW6W_qj_kmKURssQTaCf2lOrqpQ3uBhtNJfbrvA1eqQd5IESKFUykapCWZTS9azN6szgK7PZqOLiP8lPZFy6kVwEZfrZg4ZvACZBe1rQ4b8C8GWxdT3ERuX-736x278.png 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Virginia Republicans are nominating their candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general at convention sites across the commonwealth on May 8, rather than using the state&#8217;s primary system that Democrats utilize. Mike Beer, a longtime Fairfax County voter, missed the deadline to register for the nominating convention due to the website&#8217;s outage. &#8220;Virginia voters don&#8217;t carry their voter ID numbers around on them in case the state&#8217;s computer system is on the blink,&#8221; Beer told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;It&#8217;s all too cute but the end result is that I missed the convention deadline because I couldn&#8217;t furnish the state ID number.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A spokesman for the Department of Elections told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> that the scheduled maintenance from April 9 to April 12 was made months ago &#8220;to ensure maintenance was completed prior to the start of absentee voting for the state run primary on April 23.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Peter Doran, a Republican businessman running for governor, told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> that the failure is a result of &#8220;one-party rule&#8221; by Democrats, who control both the legislature and governor&#8217;s mansion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Democrats have one-party rule in Virginia,&#8221; Doran said. &#8220;They talk a big game about expanding voting access but apparently that does not apply to people who do not vote for them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Republicans candidates working to get voters registered adapted to the website&#8217;s outage. Glenn Youngkin, former CEO of the Carlyle Group and current gubernatorial candidate, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlennYoungkin\/status\/1380687250737000453?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/mailtrack.io\/trace\/link\/6cb0f4ce0bba898e3a93f100a853bd5c958578d9?url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Ftwitter.com%252FGlennYoungkin%252Fstatus%252F1380687250737000453%253Fs%253D20%26userId%3D6348687%26signature%3Da0e7884460419b1e&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1618342120314000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFEdOllO8_c8_-1j_3_jH2ZwDIvZA\">set up a hotline<\/a> for voters to call so his campaign could use resources to help them find their voter numbers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1464750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-18.png\" alt width=\"512\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2m73LmT4lzUaVxDu2UEqc1kRBIK_VlZAg4QYSPpYZ02veB4J3LAb4erQGoWbFDC8N15Obj_9R5kcpZHJfIroKpwVR5iVwAzZIdIp2Fpa9tFZDiIxPNQUBeUp6XHAZkUvE_hyc4s_.png 512w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2m73LmT4lzUaVxDu2UEqc1kRBIK_VlZAg4QYSPpYZ02veB4J3LAb4erQGoWbFDC8N15Obj_9R5kcpZHJfIroKpwVR5iVwAzZIdIp2Fpa9tFZDiIxPNQUBeUp6XHAZkUvE_hyc4s_-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2m73LmT4lzUaVxDu2UEqc1kRBIK_VlZAg4QYSPpYZ02veB4J3LAb4erQGoWbFDC8N15Obj_9R5kcpZHJfIroKpwVR5iVwAzZIdIp2Fpa9tFZDiIxPNQUBeUp6XHAZkUvE_hyc4s_-112x85.png 112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Youngkin spokesman Matt Wolking tied the website&#8217;s outage to broader &#8220;incompetence&#8221; from Gov. Ralph Northam (D.). &#8220;Virginians have had their unemployment aid languish, their vaccine rollout botched, their parole board corrupted, their jobs crushed, and their economy hurt by the career politicians in Democrat-controlled Richmond,&#8221; Wolking said. &#8220;Now they shut down the state&#8217;s website hours before the largest county&#8217;s deadline to participate in the May 8 Republican convention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">While the website was scheduled to remain offline through April 12, it was back online sometime during the afternoon of April 10, after Fairfax County&#8217;s noon deadline had passed. It is unclear how many voters were unable to register for the convention because of the outage.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Who expects to have the Virginia Election website down for three days in the middle of the convention process and deadlines?&#8221; Beer asked.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters left unable to register for convention due to &#8216;scheduled maintenance&#8217;  Matthew Foldi \u2022 April 12, 2021 5:42 pm Virginia&#8217;s Department of Elections shut &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312063,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1563.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Virginia Shuts Down Elections Site Ahead of Key Republican Deadline","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1563.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Virginia Shuts Down Elections Site Ahead of Key Republican Deadline","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}