Maricopa County says some voting locations affected by global tech outage

The Maricopa County Elections Department announced Friday that some of its voting locations are experiencing outages because of the worldwide tech outage.

"Due to the global tech outage, Maricopa County Elections is also experiencing an outage at some voting locations," the county department wrote in a post on X Friday morning. "Please visit Locations.Maricopa.Vote for the most up-to-date information about locations that are open and their hours of operations."

Early voting for Arizona's July 30th primary election began on July 3rd.

A global tech outage on Friday was caused by a faulty software update, The Associated Press reported. Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike issued the update, which affects computers running Microsoft Windows.

The company apologized for the problem and said that they are working on a fix.

The outage has caused issues for hospitals, taken media outlets and banks offline, and grounded flights.