TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Less than 24 hours after the state's voter registration website crashed, Florida's secretary of state said it does not appear any type of cyber attack is to blame.

"The Florida Department of State has been in touch with state and federal law enforcement partners since [Monday] to discuss the issues that affected Florida's Online Voter Registration system on Monday, October 5, 2020.  At this time, we have not identified any evidence of interference or malicious activity impacting the site," Secretary Laurel M. Lee said in a statement. "We will continue to monitor the situation and provide any additional information as it develops."

Gov. Ron DeSantis extended the state's voter registration deadline to 7 p.m. Tuesday, but that didn't stop a wave of criticism. 

The website crashed just hours before the original midnight deadline, potentially leaving thousands of prospective voters on the sidelines for the November election.

Users reported RegisterToVoteFlorida.org was issuing errors or not loading Monday night.

Users reported the state's voter registration site crashed and had other error messages Monday night just as the registration's midnight deadline approached.

Lee acknowledged the outage in a tweet but said the problems only lasted about 15 minutes. She attributed the issues to a high volume of users on the site.

State Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried also tweeted about the site crashing, calling it unacceptable.