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Glitch Takes General Assembly Website Into The World Of Redirects And Credit Cards

Screen grab of NCLeg.net

The website for North Carolina’s General Assembly can be a bit confusing to navigate. Today, well, let’s just say, "bless their hearts."

NCleg.net has long been the home of all things General Assembly-ee on the internet. But as of this morning that web domain expired. Replaced with the far harder to say NCGA.STATE.NC.US.

The move was planned and it was supposed to be seamless. But instead the new website lacks, well, a lot. The mobile site is completely down. The main site is kind of up. But when you click the link to listen to, say, the live stream from the House floor, a press conference, or anything with audio you get redirected back to the old page. Which now has nothing but stock photos of doctors, stethoscopes, and links that say accept credit cards.  

No, this isn’t a new way for the government to collect, it’s a technical glitch, which, according to WRAL, the head of the state’s IT Department says they’re frantically working on fixing.

Ah, politicians and their websites.

Tom Bullock decided to trade the khaki clad masses and traffic of Washington DC for Charlotte in 2014. Before joining WFAE, Tom spent 15 years working for NPR. Over that time he served as everything from an intern to senior producer of NPR’s Election Unit. Tom also spent five years as the senior producer of NPR’s Foreign Desk where he produced and reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Haiti, Egypt, Libya, Lebanon among others. Tom is looking forward to finally convincing his young daughter, Charlotte, that her new hometown was not, in fact, named after her.