Comment on State fixes glitch on site showing voter registration status

The Washington Secretary of State’s Office said it’s fixed a glitch on its website that erroneously indicated to some voters that they’re not registered to vote just as ballots for the August primary have been mailed out. One affected voter was Paulina Oberg, a resident of Vancouver, who took to a local Facebook group late last week to write that the website MyVote, which is administered by the Secretary of State, told her she wasn’t registered. Erich Ebel, communications director for the Secretary of State, said that the cause of the problem was a brief interruption between the public interface of the website and the state voter database. “That caused people to receive an inaccurate message that they were unregistered,” he said. He said the Secretary of State’s Office is still investigating the interruption and, if voters still have concerns, they can call its Elections Division.