As of April 9, over 2.3 million eligible voters had registered for advance voting in the May 14 election. However, the number could have been much higher had the online registration system not crashed.
The Election Commission (EC) attributed the system crash to a large volume of simultaneous voter registrations. The agency said it detected the problem around 9pm on April 9, the last day for advance registrations, which began on March 25. It said the system was designed to accommodate only 4,000 registrations per second.
