Voting locations in Maricopa County, AZ impacted by worldwide computer outage
Elections officials are working to fix the issue
MARICOPA COUNTY, AZ - The Maricopa County Elections Department in Arizona said the global IT outage is impacting some voting locations, as early voting in statewide primaries rolls out.
The County Recorders office check in systems are not working and are being swaped out with stand by equipment. As of now 14 of the 41 voting centers are operating, the remainder of them are not running.
In this primary election 850,000 votes are estimated to be cast.
A global tech outage on Friday was caused by a faulty software update, The Associated Press reported. Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike issued the update, which affects computers running Microsoft Windows.
The outage has caused issues for hospitals, taken media outlets and banks offline, and grounded flights.
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Wow! There was some speculation this has to do with the war between Microsoft and Meta(Facebook). It's the security company used by both companies who are in some kind of feud. I know it shutdown Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix and the Phoenix police department was having an issue. A friend on the Pacific coast was unable to log-in to our meeting this morning on her computer, but was eventually able to join. Another gal in the meeting asked if she could just listen as her job was to help get the rest of the world back online. I understand it was affecting parts of the globe.
everything is, of course, an innocent coincidence, right Vance?