An effort last year to end bilingual education with a ballot initiative failed after supporters were unable to submit signatures in time.
"This is completely unacceptable," said Stephen Dear, a North Carolina father whose son was unable to submit his applications for more than an hour.
"With the current requirements set forth by the I.O.C. for United States television rights, Turner Broadcasting will be unable to submit a bid at this time," the company said in a statement.
Eastern time, Mr. Flynn said he had tried to enter preliminary login information on the site but was unable to submit it, apparently because of the volume of requests that the site was receiving from around the country.
Thus, if a protest is filed on the sixth day following an election and a full manual recount is required, the board, through no fault of its own, will be unable to submit its returns to the department by 5: 00 p. m. on the seventh day following the election.
Two Exelon plants, Quad Cities in Illinois and Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, for instance, were unable to submit winning bids in a recent auction to meet future energy needs in the PJM territory, covering 13 Middle Atlantic and Midwestern states and the District of Columbia.
Abyan's lawyer, George Newhouse, said he was preparing an application for a temporary court injunction to her in Australia when he discovered she was to be sent back to Nauru, meaning he was unable to submit the application before her departure.
