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Grand Opening! Six Customers! Servers on Fire!

Anime-style cartoon in a dark brick bar: a caped blue figure with a .gov monitor head, labeled The Website, cheers 'Grand opening! Six customers!' A screen reads enrollments today: 6, servers: on fire, and six tiny ballot-card customers wait in line.
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A federal website launch day where the queue was short and the outage was long.

What
Grand Opening! Six Customers! Servers on Fire!
When
2026-10-16
Source
U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Credit
EXE original cartoon
License
CC BY 4.0
Details
The war-room notes counted day-one sign-ups on one hand plus a thumb. The server asks you to hold. Your democracy is important to it. Based on: Internal war-room notes from the morning after launch recorded six enrollments. (U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 2013-10-31).

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Sources and credit

  1. U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
  2. Satire: the full record

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