Voting in Virginia

A severed fiber optic cable that shut down Virginia’s online voter registration system has prompted a lawsuit from a civil rights organization.

The website on which Virginia residents can register to vote was down for several hours Tuesday, the final day to register in the commonwealth. That site, Virginia’s Citizen Portal, went down due to a cut fiber Tuesday morning, the Department of Elections said. The agency that works on cybersecurity for the commonwealth said on Twitter that a fiber cut...