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  1. Scottish Parliament Votes Halted by Azure Front Door Outage

    Members of the Scottish Parliament were sent home after a “significant Microsoft outage” knocked Holyrood’s electronic voting system offline during a marathon sitting, exposing the brittle intersection of modern parliamentary procedure and cloud-dependent infrastructure. Background The...
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  2. Scottish Parliament votes halted by Microsoft Azure outage in Oct 2025

    The Scottish Parliament was forced to suspend and ultimately cancel an evening of votes after a global Microsoft Azure outage knocked Holyrood’s electronic voting system offline on October 29, 2025, leaving lawmakers unable to cast ballots on nearly 400 amendments to the Land Reform Bill and...
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