The attack is believed to have been perpetrated by a foreign country and involved flooding the website with bogus traffic in order to crash it.

Georgia’s secretary of state warded off a cybersecurity threat this month against what was most likely an attack by a foreign country targeting its website that voters can use to request absentee ballots.

Gabriel Sterling said the absentee section of its website saw an influx of roughly 420,000 IP addresses attempting to gain access to the website.