UK voter registration website crashes before deadline for EU referendum


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 08 Jun 2016

Illustration picture of postal ballot papers June 1, 2016 in London ahead of the June 23 BREXIT referendum when voters will decide whether Britain will remain in the European Union. REUTERS/Russell Boyce

LONDON: Senior British politicians have called for voter registration for the June 23 referendum on EU membership to be reopened after a government website crashed shortly before the deadline on the night of June 7, hampering some people's efforts to register. 

The deadline passed at midnight, and half a million people registered online on the final day, according to a government website that provides data on the voter registration system. 

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