In the current week of registration for seven referendums, IT outages have occurred in some communities. Registration at the municipal office was temporarily not possible. The problem has since been resolved, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.
The technical issue was caused by the software of a “certain IT service provider” whose customers were all affected communities. At the Department of the Interior, however, there was “absolutely no server outage or server weakness,” a department spokesperson said. The data processing of the Central Voters Register (ZeWaeR) and the associated applications have been working without complaints since the registration of the referendum. The outages of the affected IT service provider were only “relatively limited in time and location”.
Secretary-General FPÖ: “Democratic scandal”
The spokesman for the Interior Ministry responded to criticism from FPÖ Secretary General Michael Schnedlitz, who spoke in a statement of a “democratic scandal”. He also raised the question “whether the BMI servers for referendums are intentionally overloaded.” Schnedlitz had received many protest calls.
The technical problem no longer exists. According to the general manager, the IT service provider’s team has been working intensively to solve it. Since Monday 19 September, seven referendums are waiting for registration. As mentioned, these can be signed up to and including Monday 26 September. Statements of support already count as signatures.
Source: Krone
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