What?

I'm sure there is a reasonable explanation for this but

Network Maintenance for
Sunday, October 31, 2004
Has Been Delayed
The State Board of Elections had requested and received permission to postpone the Secure Server Farm firewall upgrade because of the upcoming elections. This maintenance will be rescheduled at a later date.

If you have questions please contact the ITS Customer Support Center.

I would think that with the upcoming election that the Board of Elections would want to have their firewalls upgraded. We don't have electronic voting here, but still...