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Sausage site crashes on polling day

A website which offers voters the location of polling day cake stalls and sausage sizzles across Australia went down on Saturday morning.

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A vital website for Australians planning when and where they'll vote in Saturday's federal poll has crashed.

The site electionsausagesizzle.com.au crashed just after 9am (AEST).

A map on the site displays sausage sizzles and cake stalls at polling booths across the country, with 1470 stalls registered for Saturday.

The previous record came when 149 stalls registered for the 2012 Queensland state election.

On Twitter, site owner Grant Castner apologised for the failure.

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"The electionsausagesizzle.com.au site is slowly coming back online now. Apologies for the hassle," he said.

NSW has the most stalls listed with 486 registered, while Victoria has 409.

You can also check out your sausage sizzle on Twitter under the hashtag of #snagvotes.


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