Clay Higgins, in a tweet after voting, defended his stance, adding that he had been against the bill from the beginning.

"I stood with them this morning, the survivors who told the FBI, told law enforcement, begged for help, and were ignored," Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said.

As soon as social media users were able to get online following the outage, conspiracy theories began to circulate online.

The largest city in Alaska is about to undertake an experiment that feels both inevitable and impossibly futuristic in an era of pervasive mistrust toward elections: allowing all voters to cast ...