RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — The North Carolina State Board of Elections says a system failure over the weekend is fixed, and people voting in the General Election on Tuesday won’t be impacted.

The temporary interruption was in the State Board of Elections Voter Search Tool, which dropped offline for several hours for much of the state.

State Board of Elections Executive Director Sam Hayes said, "From our CIO Brett Kelly, this had to do with an update to the SEIMS system that was necessary to meet deadlines for candidate filing for next year's election."

According to Hayes, voters were not impacted, contrary to a statement from North Carolina Democratic Party Chair Anderson Clayton. In her statement over the weekend, Clayton said that poll workers were having trouble registering voters on Sat

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