The Virginia Department of Elections website displayed warning messages Monday saying the site was insecure on the last day of voter registration for the June 13 gubernatorial primaries.

The issue lasted a little more than an hour and was cleared up shortly after election officials became aware of it. But it was the second time in less than 12 months that the elections agency has had technical difficulties with a registration deadline for a statewide election looming and as would-be voters have been encouraged to register online.

Last October, a federal judge ordered the state to temporarily reopen its voter registration period after the website crashed at the deadline to register for the presidential election.

The website did not go down Monday, but multiple web browsers displayed security warnings flagging the site as potentially dangerous. To get to the site, users had to click through the warning and disregard browser recommendations to close the page.

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Virginia’s state government IT systems are absolutely awful.