The Pennsylvania Department of State's voter registration site will be down for maintenance starting Saturday, Oct. 5, the day former President Donald Trump made his triumphant return to Butler, Pennsylvania, nearly three months after his first assassination attempt. It overlapped with However, it appears that authorities may have shifted the timing in response to criticism.
Conservative activist Scott Pressler was among those who pointed out this strange reality.
“@PAStateDept's voter registration website will be unavailable on Saturday, October 5th, when President Trump triumphantly returns to the scene of his assassination attempt in Butler County, Pennsylvania,” he said.
“When PA gets attention, the site will go down. Coincidence?” He directly shared a screenshot of the website and wrote, “This website will be down on Saturday, October 5th due to planned system maintenance. It will be unavailable from 6pm to 12am. Thank you for your understanding.
Trump's rally that day, which is sure to attract a lot of attention, is scheduled to begin at 5pm ET. In fact, when you try to register to vote online in Pennsylvania, a red warning pops up. However, authorities have since Moved Scheduled maintenance will start at 10:00 PM ET instead of 6:00 PM, at least as of this writing.
Now it looks like this:
Due to system maintenance, this website will be unavailable from 10:00 pm on Saturday, October 5th to 4:00 am on October 6th. Thank you for your understanding.
Many wondered why authorities would schedule maintenance during daylight hours instead of midnight like most.
“Why don't they do maintenance from midnight to 6 a.m. like any other respectable organization? Unless customer disruption is the goal, they do it in the middle of the night to avoid customer disruption.” said one X user. guessed. “A little loophole that they use to cheat.”
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Some say this is clear election interference.
Another X user: “This is definitely election interference.” said. “They will do whatever it takes to win.”
Others pointed to the possibility of other sinister acts.
“We hope all Pennsylvanians re-verify their voter status after ‘routine maintenance,’” another said. said.
Trump's rally in Butler, where the first assassination attempt occurred and resulted in the tragic death of Corey Comperatore, a Trump supporter who protected his family from gunfire, is sure to attract a lot of attention.
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“During his visit, President Trump will honor the memory of Corey Comperatore, who heroically sacrificed his life to protect his wife and daughters from bullets on that tragic day,” the Trump campaign said. President Trump also pays tribute to two other Americans.” They were injured by gunmen David Dutch and James Copenhaver. ”
The Senate investigation report into the Butler assassination attempt on President Trump revealed several security lapses by the U.S. Secret Service.
“As I have said, this was a failure of the U.S. Secret Service,” Acting Director Ronald L. Lowe Jr. acknowledged in September. “It is important that we take responsibility for the failure of July 13th.”
