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| Canada's immigration website crashes during US vote | Canada's immigration website crashes during US vote |
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| Canada's immigration website has suffered an intermittent fault that has made it inaccessible to visitors during the US election vote. | Canada's immigration website has suffered an intermittent fault that has made it inaccessible to visitors during the US election vote. |
| It has led to speculation that the problem is the result of increased traffic from US citizens in the wake of Donald Trump's victory. | It has led to speculation that the problem is the result of increased traffic from US citizens in the wake of Donald Trump's victory. |
| Officials from the Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) service could not be reached for comment. | Officials from the Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) service could not be reached for comment. |
| But some experts suggest there are other more likely causes. | But some experts suggest there are other more likely causes. |
| "It could just be an extraordinary coincidence," commented Prof Alan Woodward from the University of Surrey. | "It could just be an extraordinary coincidence," commented Prof Alan Woodward from the University of Surrey. |
| Nevertheless, the glitch has been widely commented about on social media. | Nevertheless, the glitch has been widely commented about on social media. |
| The issue is not the only glitch linked to the US elections. | The issue is not the only glitch linked to the US elections. |
| Officials were unable to access Colorado's voter registration database for about half an hour on Tuesday afternoon. | Officials were unable to access Colorado's voter registration database for about half an hour on Tuesday afternoon. |
| "Clerks can't process mail ballots that need to have the signature verified," tweeted Lynn Bartels, spokeswoman for Colorado's secretary of state, at the time, adding that in-person votes also had to temporarily be treated as being "provisional" while the fault endured. | "Clerks can't process mail ballots that need to have the signature verified," tweeted Lynn Bartels, spokeswoman for Colorado's secretary of state, at the time, adding that in-person votes also had to temporarily be treated as being "provisional" while the fault endured. |
| "Unfortunately our system goes down now and then," she said. | "Unfortunately our system goes down now and then," she said. |
| North Carolina's State Board of Elections was also forced to switch from using an electronic voting check-in system to a paper-based one at several of its precincts after experiencing "technical problems". | North Carolina's State Board of Elections was also forced to switch from using an electronic voting check-in system to a paper-based one at several of its precincts after experiencing "technical problems". |
| It later reported a delay in uploading about 93,000 of its voting results before solving the problem. | It later reported a delay in uploading about 93,000 of its voting results before solving the problem. |
| There were also unverified claims that some machines had switched votes for one candidate for another. | There were also unverified claims that some machines had switched votes for one candidate for another. |
| "The machines, you put down a Republican and it registers as a Democrat, and they've had a lot of complaints about that today," Donald Trump told Fox News. | "The machines, you put down a Republican and it registers as a Democrat, and they've had a lot of complaints about that today," Donald Trump told Fox News. |
| However, officials had blamed earlier reports of such problems on "user error". | However, officials had blamed earlier reports of such problems on "user error". |
| Elsewhere, the Verge has reported that a company that had provided a get-out-the-vote telephone and texting service to the Clinton campaign had suffered a cyber-attack causing "brief periods of unavailability". | |
| The news site reported that members of the 4chan chat site had said they had intended to carry out a denial-of-service attack - which involves flooding a target with internet traffic - which might have been responsible. | |
| Meanwhile, Bloomberg has acknowledged "an internal issue" caused its instant messaging tool to stop working for about an hour on Tuesday morning. | |
| The service is used by financial traders and money managers to discuss market-moving events. | |
| The Financial Times reported that users temporarily switched to WhatsApp, but that the fault "frayed nerves" ahead of the election results. |