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UK voter registration website crashes before deadline for EU referendum
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 Tuesday night, hampering some people's efforts to register. The deadline passed at midnight (07:00 p.m. EDT), and half a million people registered online on the final day, according to a government website that provides data on the voter registration system. But at 11:35 p.m., the Cabinet Office, the government department in charge of the issue, tweeted that it was aware of an issue with the website, which was due to unprecedented ... (full story)