Unfortunately, Utah’s digital election night did not go 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 could 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.
Others say they got stuck on the candidate page and couldn’t cast their ballot.
Others say they got confused by links to the candidates’ bios, thinking a click meant they were voting for a certain candidate only to find they were suddenly on a different website.
As of Tuesday night, party officials said about 10,000 of the 40,000 Utahns who applied to vote online were rejected because their IDs couldn’t be verified.
In an interview with the Salt Lake Tribune, GOP Party Chairman Evans seemed to suggest the error was on the user end: “Primarily it was people thinking they were approved to vote online, but were not,” Evans said. “The other category were people who received their PIN and it went to their spam folder or they just deleted it.”
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