I believe there were long lines too on April 2, 1968, when Eugene J. McCarthy defeated President LBJ in WI by a considerable margin. LBJ had exited the race on the evening of March 31.
Gotta love the Cheeseheads.
I just received BREAKING NEWS from my sources deep within the Cruz camp. Apparently the FR outage is a direct result of an evil Ted Cruz plot to punish Free Republic for its overwhelming Pro-Trump support. Late last night, the Cruz campaign ordered 20 Cruzbots to hit the refresh button at the SAME TIME, resulting in a cascade explosion in FR server generators. Over a hundred hamsters were vaporized by the resulting explosion, and many more are currently missing but are suspected dead in the inferno.
I seem to remember that election.