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Pennsylvania leaders are under fire after the state’s voter registration website made its website unavailable during the same time as President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler on Saturday.
Republican activist Scott Pressler was among the conservative voices speaking out about the concerning timing of the outage.
“The PA State Department voter registration website will be unavailable on Saturday, October 5th, the day that President Trump will be triumphantly returning to the site of the assassination attempt in Butler County, PA. W/ all eyes on PA, the site will be down. Coincidence?” Pressler posted to Instagram on Thursday.
A state disclaimer was posted that the Pennsylvania voter registration website would be unavailable starting at 6 p.m. on Saturday.
“This website will undergo scheduled system maintenance and be unavailable Saturday, October 5 from 6 p.m. until 12 a.m. We thank you for your understanding,” the website stated on Oct. 1, an archived page reviewed by Fox News Digital shows.
“Wow, they aren’t even trying to hide their blatant interference – appreciate you flagging, @scottpresler – @gop legal is on it and formally requesting the ‘system maintenance’ is moved to a different time,” Lara Trump posted to Facebook on Thursday.
A later screenshot from Pressler showed the website unavailable from 10 p.m. on Saturday until 4 a.m. on Sunday. The change from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. was made on Oct. 3, the same day Pressler and Lara Trump publicly mentioned the concern.
Pressler also drew attention to the issue during an interview with Jack Posobiec from Human Events that aired on Oct. 3.
“We discovered by going to the voter registration website for Pennsylvania that they were scheduling maintenance during the exact time that President Trump is doing his historic rally,” Pressler stated during the interview.
Pressler later posted an update to the interview: “Thank you for having me. I’m so glad we caught the @PAStateDept engaging in election interference & immediately took action.”
Oct. 21 is the last day of voter registration in Pennsylvania. The state is considered the top prize among the seven swing states, offering 19 electoral votes to the winner of the state’s presidential election. Trump won Pennsylvania in 2016, while President Joe Biden won the state in 2020 with strong controversy over the official results.