KNOXVILLE - Knox County information technology director Dick Moran and county IT staff were ready for Election Day and the higher amounts of traffic that would undoubtedly come to the county election commission website with former WWE wrestler, Glenn Jacobs, on the Republican ballot.
At 7:50 p.m., Moran instructed the website be checked to make sure the early voting results could be posted when the polls closed 10 minutes later. Everything checked out. Everything was working.
Seven minutes after his request, Knox County's election commission website was attacked and the results, although not impacted by the attack, wouldn't be displayed until nearly 9 p.m., sowing more chaos into an already energetic and unpredictable night.
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