WASHINGTON—The Virginia voter registration deadline has been extended after the online registration portal was offline for hours due to a fiber optic cable being severed. The new deadline to register online is Oct. 15 by 11:59 p.m.
The cable was cut on Oct. 13, the day of the original deadline, and rendered the site inoperable until around 4 p.m. that day. The Virginia Information Technologies Agency said the cable was inadvertently cut during a Chesterfield County roadside utilities project.
