Voter lookup tools go down across Florida as early voting begins

by Alice Herman | Suncoast Searchlight and Christian Casale, Suncoast SearchlightOctober 21, 2026 The voter lookup function was down across Florida Supervisor of Elections pages due to digital security concerns impacting websites around the globe. Across Florida, voters seeking information about their registration status were blocked when the company that hosts county Supervisors of Elections websites shut down access due to security concerns Wednesday morning. VR Systems, the Tallahassee-based elections technology firm that Florida uses, pulled some public-facing parts of its websites after the PHP Foundation, which oversees the open-source programming language, identified critical vulnerabilities that could impact digital infrastructure across the world.   The website troubles come at a critical time with early voting already underway and the midterm elections less than two weeks away. On Sarasota County’s Supervisor of Elections website, for example, voters cannot loo