( CNN ) -- The office of Georgia 's Secretary of State confirmed Tuesday that its website has been experiencing intermittent problems on Election Day . A website that provides poll location information was showing an error message earlier Tuesday . `` We are experiencing difficulties with [ our website ] . Our IT folks are working on it . We 're throwing resources at it to solve the problem , '' Jared Thomas , chief of staff and press secretary for the office , told CNN . 7 things that will almost definitely happen on election night . Two of Georgia 's elections Tuesday hold high significance . Its Senate race could help determine majority control in the upper chamber , while its gubernatorial race could see the ouster of its Republican incumbent governor for Democrat Jason Carter , the grandson of former President Jimmy Carter . Voting irregularities are closely monitored on big election days across the country by political parties , independent groups and the media . A viewer 's guide to the election . More serious claims have been made elsewhere . In Connecticut , Gov . Dan Malloy is asking a judge to extend voting hours after delays and other problems were reported at Hartford polling locations Tuesday morning , according to local reports . CNN affiliate WAVY in Virginia received reports from local voters who said they experienced voting machine errors at multiple locations . And in North Carolina , conservative activist James O'Keefe released a new video Monday showing how he obtained ballots at polling stations by pretending to be inactive voters . The point of the video was to show the need for voter ID laws , which are scheduled to start in North Carolina in 2016 . Election monitors sent to 18 states . CNN 's Ashley Killough , John Newsome and John Branch contributed to this report .
Georgia 's main election website experienced problems on Election Day morning . A number of groups and the media pay close attention to voter irregularities on big election days . Comment: