A massive global tech outage Friday snarled early voting in Arizona’s state-level primary elections — as travelers leaving the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee were delayed, officials said Friday.
Some early voting stations in the Grand Canyon state, where early voting has been open since July 3, were knocked out of use Friday, according to the Maricopa County Elections Department.
“Due to the global tech outage, Maricopa County is also experiencing an outage at some voting locations,” the department wrote on on X.
A total of 15 of the early polling sites were impeded by the CrowdStrike outage, which crippled industries and banks and caused massive travel delays worldwide, officials said.
Primaries in the battleground state could dramatically shift power in the US Senate and House — with former gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake challenging Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb for the chance to replace outgoing Sen. Kyrsten Sinema.
Six Republicans, including former Senate candidate Blake Masters, are also competing to replace retiring Republican Debbie Lesko in Arizona’s 8th Congressional District.
Meanwhile, travelers leaving the RNC Friday were hit with frustrating flight delays caused by the global tech glitch.
Hundreds of people stood in line for hours at the Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport, travelers told The Post.
Liz Willis, 31, a conservative social media influencer who traveled to Wisconsin for the RNC, was stuck in line at Delta’s check-in hub for two and a half hours Friday.
“It’s been an exhausting week. It’s been exciting,” she said. “I want to go home and go to bed.”
The GOP convention in Milwaukee is the second in recent years that ended with a major transportation-related outage. During the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, 2,000 flights were delayed or canceled due to Southwest experiencing a technology issue.
