To the question “and you, where do you vote”, the answer should not be so obvious. Tens of thousands of people have been looking since the opening of the polls this Sunday, for the first round of the presidential election, in which polling station they should go. To the point that, overstressed, the site has been experiencing major weaknesses for several hours.
At first glance, “I find my polling station”, a site of the Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Dila), an administration attached to the Secretary General of the Government, appears perfectly. But once you have entered your city of residence, your last name, all your first names and your date of birth, you will see a message stating that “due to particularly heavy traffic, the requested page cannot be pin up “.
More than 500,000 inquiries
At Dila, it is claimed that the site is not down, but, in high demand, takes time to respond to requests. “Due to a large number of requests on the online service for querying one’s electoral situation, it is possible that access to the service will take a little time: a load shedding service is being set up and it is then necessary regularly reload the page. It becomes accessible again, ”replied the service.
However, by doing the test a dozen times since 1 p.m., only one request has been successful, the others still encountering the message of unavailability.
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According to Dila, 525,000 requests for information were answered between the start of the morning and 2 p.m., including 65,000 in the single hour between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m.