Nashville Election Commission Page Down On Election Day

It's election day morning, and having missed early voting for the first time in the 3 years or so since I moved to my current area of town; I go onto Nashville Election Commission's site to confirm my polling site as to where I think it is, and get the address so that I can google map it, and make sure I'm able to find it on the way home from work.

So I mosey my mouse on over to there handy "My Polling Location" icon, and I click, and the page is down for maintenance. *blinks*

No, I'm not joking, not making it up, not lying, here's a picture:

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REALLY! Are you serious election commission? Administrator of Elections, Ray Barrett, got some 'splaining to do.

Regular maintenance to a high traffic site such as this is necessary, but is this the day to be doing it? That's like inviting people over for a Super Bowl party, then shutting off the breaker to do electrical maintance on your house. Today's the day you want to do that? Sure you want to shut off the electricity now, before the big game?

And if it was an unexpected and unplanned maintenance problem, well then PLAN BETTER. Mid-term congressional elections and the Governor's race only come around once every four years. It's not like today snuck up on them by surprise. They only had about 1,459 days to prepare.

Luckily it was the Tennessee Department of State, Division of Elections site to my rescue, with there Voter Information Lookup tab in the left panel.

At least the Nashville Election Commissions Sample Ballot link does work, so you can check out the races and ballot initiatives before stepping into the booth. Read more: http://www.blogdoctor.me/2007/02/expandable-post-summaries.html#ixzz0fvTXmFSF