Visitor overloads to web sites are the number one cause of service outage.
Even major commercial Internet concerns such as eBay, the massive on-line auction house, suffer such outages whenever traffic outstrips their server capacity. As this paper was being prepared eBay suffered one of many such service interruptions - this one lasting for days. It is a serious concern. A well-designed system should be able to handle election loads without a problem. All rights reserved.