Florida’s voter registration website was not felled in a cyberattack but was overwhelmed by a crush of users when it crashed Monday as the deadline to register to vote neared, a state official said Wednesday.

Florida Chief Information Officer James Grant told The Associated Press “misconfigured servers” caused the crash and the state responded by expanding capacity to give the system a “whole lot more horsepower.”

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