Posted on 03/23/2016 7:06:52 AM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
Tuesday night is supposed to be Utah Republicans' moment in the national spotlight -- and not just because the state could hand Donald Trump a rare crushing defeat.
The Utah Republican Party is hosting what is could be the nation's largest online election ever.* In addition to hosting a statewide caucus, the party set up an online voting system for any registered voter outside or inside the state.
"I think it's going to be great," Utah GOP Chairman James Evans said at the time of the switch.
Campaign 2016 Email Updates Get the best analysis of the presidential race. Sign up Unfortunately, Utah's digital election night doesn't seem to be going as smoothly as Utah Republicans had hoped.
While Utah Republicans headed to their caucus in person on Tuesday evening, anyone who had registered online by March 17 can log on to utah.gop to vote between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m. local time and cast their vote. But the Deseret News reports some voters got error messages when they tried to navigate beyond the first page.
"I must have tried eight or nine times without success," Greg Ericksen told the newspaper.
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What does one expect from the people in a state who has kept putting Sen. Orin Hatch back in office for, what, 100 years now?
I guess caucus means something else in Utah, if people can do it online?
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