October 04, 2011 03:18 AM UTC

Intermittent Outages Plaguing GoVoteColorado.com?

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• by: Colorado Pols

TUESDAY UPDATE #2: FOX 31’s Eli Stokols:

Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler and his staff dismissed speculation from Democratic groups that technical problems Monday on the state’s voter registration website were intentional…

“There were some intermittent issues, but we got to it as quickly as we could,” said Rich Coolidge, Gessler’s spokesman. “We monitor it really closesly, especially on a day ilke yesterday. It was the heavy volume on the site that caused any slowing issues.”

Some Democrats, however, aren’t giving Gessler the benefit of the doubt in light of what they call his “war on voting”, a looming legal battle over whether inactive voters should receive mail ballots.

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TUESDAY UPDATE: No official word yet on how widespread this problem may have been — and how many people were possibly affected.

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We have received multiple, and by that we mean a substantial number, of reports of intermittent technical problems at the official voter registration website for the state of Colorado, GoVoteColorado.com–as well as at least one confirmed error of our own (above). There seems to be trouble off and on with loading any of the new registration or update functions on the site, as well as filled-out form pages suddenly returning an error message like the one above. As you know, today is the deadline to register to vote for this year’s statewide election. It’s worth noting that we received our first report of a problem accessing the website last Thursday.

We’re certainly not making any accusations; it’s important to head that off given that this website is administered by the office of Secretary of State Scott Gessler. Who is, somebody is going to say it if we don’t, more or less continuously mired in, well, scandal. The mind goes where it will.

But presuming good faith, we know that Mr. Gessler will make finding out what the hell is wrong with the voter registration website on the last day to register his very top priority.