Across Florida, voters seeking information about their registration status were blocked this morning when the company that hosts county Supervisors of Elections websites shut down access due to security concerns.
VR Systems, the Tallahassee-based elections technology firm that Florida uses, pulled some public-facing parts of its websites after the PHP Foundation, which oversees the open-source programming language, identified critical vulnerabilities that could impact digital infrastructure across the world.
The website troubles come at a critical time with early voting already underway and the midterm elections less than two weeks away…