Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut

2020-10-20 Thread Don Gould
From: Mark Andrews Date: 17/10/20 11:29 am (GMT+12:00) To: aheb...@pubnix.net Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut It’s not the population. It’s the number of positions/things you are voting for.   New Zealand doesn’t vote for sheriffs

Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut

2020-10-20 Thread Mike Hammett
Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Rich Kulawiec" To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Monday, October 19, 2020 11:58:23 AM Subject: Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 07:44:01PM -0400, Sean Don

Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut

2020-10-19 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 07:44:01PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote: > In the USA, absent clear and convincing evidence otherwise, I expect any > outages will be due to the normal things that cause outages on election day. One of those things is the chronic underfunding of the systems/personnel

Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut [ID #5475615x3]

2020-10-19 Thread Tom Beecher
DO NOT EDIT BELOW THIS LINE Assigned to: BuyGoods Support Again, hopefully Twitter won't fall down again during the evening of November 3rd. The digeratti will lose thier minds. No offense towards our many friends at Twitter, but I

Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut

2020-10-19 Thread Tom Beecher
> > Again, hopefully Twitter won't > fall down again during the evening of November 3rd. The digeratti will > lose thier minds. > No offense towards our many friends at Twitter, but I think the best thing that could happen would be for Twitter to shut 'er down from November 1 through November 6.

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2020-10-19 Thread Alain Hebert
DO NOT EDIT BELOW THIS LINE Assigned to: BuyGoods Support Or what Matt? - Alain Hebertaheb...@pubnix.net PubNIX Inc. 50 boul. St-Charles P.O. Box 26770 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W

Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut

2020-10-19 Thread Alain Hebert
    Or what Matt? - Alain Hebertaheb...@pubnix.net PubNIX Inc. 50 boul. St-Charles P.O. Box 26770 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 6G7 Tel: 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.netFax: 514-990-9443 On 2020-10-16 19:26, Matt Erculiani wrote: Non-network-related

Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut

2020-10-17 Thread Sean Donelan
To keep this on topic, no mention of any candidate or political party. Networks can impact elections, and elections can impact network operators. If @netblocks publishes a special report about your country's elections, that's a huge indicator of network (and election) problems. In the

RE: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut

2020-10-17 Thread Keith Medcalf
>In other news, New Zealand is having national elections this weekend. >New Zealand is usually ranked in the top 10 best election administrations >worldwide. NZ expects to have the majority of ballots counted within 2 >hours of their polls closing on Saturday evening. I thought the HGIC (Head

Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut

2020-10-16 Thread Mark Andrews
It’s not the population. It’s the number of positions/things you are voting for. New Zealand doesn’t vote for sheriffs, judges, mayors etc. AFAIK so there is much less to count. More population should lead to more polling stations. These need to be collated but that is a relatively quick job

Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut

2020-10-16 Thread Alain Hebert
    Hi,     Beside being:         . a country with 1/10th of the population;         . centralized voting rules;         . ...     PS: And there is a lot in that about the (publicly) unreal amount of insanity being pulled by the GOP  this year. - Alain Hebert

Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut

2020-10-16 Thread Sean Donelan
On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Valdis Klētnieks wrote: my reaction was more like Surprise, surprise, surprise... S.N.A.F.U. Other SNAFUs, Georgia had technical problems with its voter database systems during the first couple of days of early voting. Expect all sorts of minor problems throughout the

Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut

2020-10-14 Thread Warren Kumari
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 5:15 PM Christopher Morrow wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 2:41 PM Sean Donelan wrote: > > > > On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Christopher Morrow wrote: > > > spof > > > > > > the vita folk have a history of 'not really understanding large scale > > > compute/network operations'

Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut

2020-10-13 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 17:11:53 -0400, Christopher Morrow said: > sorry I meant that: 1) yes clearly it's still the middle of > roadwork/backhoe season, 2) i'm surprised that a single path failure > for their production datacenter was enough to take the system offline. > 'spof' there meant: "Wow, a

Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut

2020-10-13 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 2:41 PM Sean Donelan wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Christopher Morrow wrote: > > spof > > > > the vita folk have a history of 'not really understanding large scale > > compute/network operations' :( > > Reportedly, the VITA data center and Virginia voter registration

Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut

2020-10-13 Thread Sean Donelan
On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Christopher Morrow wrote: spof the vita folk have a history of 'not really understanding large scale compute/network operations' :( Reportedly, the VITA data center and Virginia voter registration system is back up. According to VITA, a Verizon fiber was struck during

Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut

2020-10-13 Thread Christopher Morrow
spof the vita folk have a history of 'not really understanding large scale compute/network operations' :( On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 11:06 AM Sean Donelan wrote: > > > On the last day of Virginia voter registration, the state-wide voter > registration system experienced a cable cut disrupting

Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut

2020-10-13 Thread Sean Donelan
On the last day of Virginia voter registration, the state-wide voter registration system experienced a cable cut disrupting access to the state-wide database system. Absent clear and convincing evidence otherwise, the problems will likely be caused by the usual stupid stuff. VITA