Canada's site to apply for citizenship crashes Tuesday night

The website with instructions on how to become a Canadian citizen crashed Tuesday night as Donald Trump appeared to close in on a victory.

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Visitors were met with a long wait and eventually an error message telling viewers that there was a problem with the server.

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There was no official word from the Canadian government about the outage.

Some pages on the site worked, while others crashed, users reported.

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