{"id":4692,"date":"2009-06-29T00:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T06:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/06\/sos-web-site-now-says-its-down-for-upgrades\/"},"modified":"2009-06-29T00:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T06:34:00","slug":"sos-web-site-now-says-its-down-for-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/06\/sos-web-site-now-says-its-down-for-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"SOS Web site now says it&#8217;s &#8216;down for upgrades&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Talk about putting a positive spin on a bad situation. A newly posted message on the secretary of state\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Web site<\/a> claims that \u201cupgrades\u201d are the reason the office\u2019s computer systems and Web site are down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cSECRETARY OF STATE\u2019S WEBSITE DOWN FOR UPGRADES,\u201d states the headline on the message, which was posted late Friday on a page that is otherwise devoid of content.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThe Secretary of State\u2019s network is currently down for upgrades. Our website will be unavailable during this time. Return to normal operations after the upgrades are completed. We apologize for the inconvenience,\u201d the message states. \u201cIf you have any questions, please call our office at: 505-827-3600.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The message contains no other information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cCurrently down for upgrades?\u201d That\u2019s not exactly what we were told last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Officials said earlier on Friday that problems <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/secretary-of-states-computer-systems.html\">knocked out<\/a> the secretary of state\u2019s new and still-under-development campaign finance and disclosure system, all other computer systems in the office and the office\u2019s Web site. Systems that are necessary for the public to do all sorts of business, from accessing campaign and lobbyist information to registering trademarks and other dealings between businesses and state government, are down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cRight now we are having IT issues at the SOS,\u201d Deputy Secretary of State Don Francisco Trujillo II said Friday, before the message was posted on the Web site. \u201cEverything is down. All of our systems are currently down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Hmm\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about putting a positive spin on a bad situation. A newly posted message on the secretary of state\u2019s Web site claims that \u201cupgrades\u201d are the reason the office\u2019s computer systems and Web site are down. \u201cSECRETARY OF STATE\u2019S WEBSITE DOWN FOR UPGRADES,\u201d states the headline on the message, which was posted late Friday on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}