Several county websites in Florida reportedly experienced issues displaying election results shortly after polls closed Tuesday night in Florida’s primary contest, according to Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd. Counties had to rely on an alternative website to display results.
During a Tuesday evening press conference, Secretary Byrd told reporters that the state was “aware that some counties are having issues with their websites communicating with VR systems.” He said the issue was strictly limited to public-facing websites and that it had no impacts on counties reporting election votes to the state or issues with the state accessing that data.
“We’ve offered our support to help supervisors with their issues with their vendor,” he said.
In an update on Wednesday, VR Systems Chief Operating Officer Ben Martin shared the following statement about the incident:
“We want to clarify our response to what happened yesterday to the websites we host for county supervisors of elections in …