No matter who you are voting for or what your political affiliation is there are some lines you shouldn’t cross. One of those is to stage a DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack on the website of the opposing viewpoint. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what happened to the website of the group against California’s Proposition 8 that would ban same-sex marriage.

Wired: The Secret Service is now investigating the denial-of-service attack on NOonprop8.com, an attack that began Wednesday afternoon and eventually made the site unreachable that evening, according to spokeswoman Julia Spiess.

No on Prop 8 described the attack as “what appears to be a coordinated attack designed to bring the system down.”

Distributed Denial of Service attacks work by sending floods of fake requests to a website in order to prevent legitimate users from getting in. Attackers often use a network of compromised computers — known as a botnet — to send the traffic from multiple locations, which makes filtering more difficult. Motives for such attacks range from revenge to ransom.

As of Thursday morning, the site was back up and running normally after the site’s technicians made hardware and software changes, Spiess said.

The attack came right after the group issued a fund raising appeal ahead of the final weekend before Tuesday’s vote. The measure seeks to ban same-sex marriages in California, which became legal in June this year after the California Supreme Court struck down the state’s laws banning gay marriage, finding them unconstitutional.

I have a feeling this won’t be the last time we’ll see this strong-armed tactic used to silence people’s political opinion.