Large number of primary races, candidates led to election night crash of Dane County website
As candidates, voters and reporters anxiously refreshed Dane County’s election results website Tuesday night to learn results of the primary election, they were met with a blank screen and cryptic error message.
The combination of many users accessing the site and a large amount of information being uploaded to it caused technical problems, said county officials.
“The large number of races and candidates leading to large data loads was the main reason the site had issues,” said Jon Hatley, Dane County interim applications manager. “High volume of traffic exacerbated the problem.”
Hatley said the entire data set is loaded each time the page is refreshed. On Tuesday, this came out to about 53,000 rows of data, including all precinct details. That was over 20,000 more rows than the county has seen in previous elections.
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