After a cut fiber optic cable blocked access to Virginia’s online voter registration portal on the last day to register, a federal judge has ordered the state election commission to extend the registration deadline by 48 hours, Politico reports.
U.S. District Judge John A. Gibney, Jr. issued the order Wednesday morning, saying that irreparable harm had been done to people who tried to register yesterday after the accidental severing of the cable cut service to the registration site and other state offices.
The registration deadlines is now 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, October 15th. No parties objected to the extension.
“We are 21 days away from the most important election of our lifetimes, and I want to make sure that every Virginian who wants to vote has the opportunity to do so,” Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring said in a statement.