The maintenance of the website was scheduled to begin around the time former President Donald Trump appeared at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania Department of State postponed the maintenance of its online voter registration website following complaints from the Republican National Committee. The original downtime for the voter registration website would have coincided with a campaign rally for former President Donald Trump in Butler Township, Pennsylvania, the same location where he narrowly survived an assassination attempt on July 13.
The department, responsible for overseeing elections in Pennsylvania, announced on October 1 that the online voter registration website would be inaccessible from 6 p.m. on October 5 to 12 a.m. on October 6 for maintenance. This would make the voter registration website unavailable to users during that period.
Meanwhile, the campaign rally in Butler Township scheduled for October 5 has been visible on the Trump campaign website since at least September 27.
The decision to conduct website maintenance caught the attention of Scott Presler, who has been chosen by the RNC to lead the Republican get-out-the-vote effort for this election cycle. Presler questioned the timing of the maintenance in a social media post directed at the Pennsylvania State Department’s office on October 2.
RNC co-chair Lara Trump also criticized the timing of the maintenance in an October 3 social media post, accusing the department of blatant interference. The RNC’s legal team formally requested the Pennsylvania State Department to reschedule the maintenance of the voter registration website.
Following the request, the Pennsylvania State Department decided to move the scheduled website downtime forward by four hours. The voter registration website will now be offline from 10 p.m. on October 5 to 4 a.m. on October 6.
Presler expressed pride in getting the voter registration maintenance rescheduled, believing it would benefit President Trump during his rally in Butler. The Epoch Times reached out to the Pennsylvania State Department for comment but received no response by publication time.
Trump appeared at the Butler Farm Show grounds at around 6 p.m. on October 5, the same time the Pennsylvania State Department had initially planned for the voter registration website to be down for maintenance.
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