State's advance voting not affected by tech outage

Voting in Georgia was not affected by a systems outage that affected state government computers Thursday morning, an official said.

A “cable cut” caused systems serving Georgia’s executive branch to go out from about 6:45 to 9:45 a.m., said Paula Calhoun of the Georgia Technology Authority, which manages the technology operations.

The authority switched to a backup system to revive operations, Calhoun said.

“(The outage) did not affect the Secretary of State’s office, so voting was not affected,” she said. Georgia is in the final week of advance voting for the Nov. 8 presidential election, as well as state and local races and issues.

However, it was the second outage in three weeks for the Department of Driver Services. On Oct. 15, offices with Saturday hours closed early because of computer problems. That was caused by problems with a Homeland Security database that DDS computers have to link to, spokeswoman Susan Sports said.

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