The polls have started coming in south of the border, and Kerry currently leads with 77 electoral votes to Bush’s 66 (CNN). Bush currently has 57% of the popular vote, however. Tons of websites are covering the election, as you might expect, and tons of them are under attack.
Aaron Bailey reported earlier today that a number of “conservative” bloggers sites have been under attack, and many are down, like VodkaPundit, Powerline and Malkin. The site I have been using, http://www.electoral-vote.com, is also down. Only its 8th mirror site seems to be working, and very, very slowly at that.
Both the candidates websites experienced larger than normal traffic on the eve of the election, with both more than doubling daily averages. Both sites remained working, however. Something needs to be done to help out the little guys. We can’t let people attack free speech and bring down entire blogs or websites.
More to come later tonight when I post a special Blogosphere News podcast on the election.
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It’s not attacking free speech…when there is a sudden spike in traffic…it often takes the site down. It’s nothing malicious and something that should be expected during the election because of course there will be more interest.
If you click the link about the conservative blogs that have been down, you’ll see that they have confirmed with their web hosting companies that they are indeed under a denial of service attack (DoS), and it is not just higher than normal traffic.
The campaign sites are normal traffic, I was just highlighting the fact that they have the money to keep going under extreme stress on the servers whereas the blogs, the sites without spin, do not.
hmm. i’s an interesting concept though. it does seem to me to be a suppression of free speech. (lol..mack, i agree!)