In keeping with reporting from the Dallas Morning Information, final month when the Beto O’Rourke marketing campaign submitted their routine marketing campaign finance report back to the Texas Ethics Fee, the file dimension was so giant it really crashed their servers.

Now, the Texas Ethics Fee is requesting $756,000 to improve their dated tools. They’re warning that their servers will seemingly crash once more in October, when stories are due once more. 

The Texas Ethics Fee performs an important function in monitoring the fundraising and spending of political candidates; if their servers go down once more, that data can’t be retrieved by any member of the general public, eliminating what little public belief stays.

For any Texan who has visited a state authorities web site, it’s fairly apparent that the state authorities has lengthy uncared for their digital presence. Most state web sites haven’t been redesigned for the reason that early 2000’s, making them tough to navigate and work together with.

This server crash is simply one other instance in a protracted checklist of state providers which have lengthy been uncared for by Texas Republicans.

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