Conservatives are expressing outrage over the Pennsylvania Department of State’s poorly timed decision to schedule system maintenance on its voter registration website.
The planned update, set for October 5th, would have taken the voter registration platform offline for several hours—conveniently coinciding with former President Donald Trump’s highly anticipated return to Butler, Pennsylvania.
This marked Trump’s first visit to the area since surviving an assassination attempt in July.
Many on the right viewed the timing of the system shutdown as a blatant attempt to suppress voter registration efforts during a critical rally.
Scott Pressler, a prominent GOP activist, was quick to raise alarm over the suspicious timing.
“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. With all eyes on PA, the site will be down. Coincidence?” Pressler posted on Instagram, adding fuel to concerns about political interference.
Fox News Digital, reviewing archived data from the Pennsylvania Voter Registration website, confirmed that a disclaimer was posted informing voters that the site would be unavailable starting at 6 p.m. on October 5th.
This was precisely when the Trump rally was expected to hit its peak, and when organizers hoped to capitalize on a surge of new voter registrations.
Lara Trump, co-chair of the Republican National Committee, suggested this was a deliberate attempt to stifle new Republican voters.
“Wow, they aren’t even trying to hide their blatant interference,” Lara Trump wrote in a scathing Facebook post.
She also thanked Pressler for drawing attention to the issue, while confirming that GOP legal teams were already addressing the situation and demanding the state reschedule the maintenance.
After the outcry, the Department of State shifted the maintenance window to later in the evening.
Lara Trump celebrated the move on social media.
“And just like that, we got PA to move it. Great example of what happens when citizens demand fairness.”
Despite the rescheduling, some critics, including Pressler, remained unsatisfied with the state’s initial attempt to block access to the voter registration website at such a pivotal moment.
“It was clear that the Pennsylvania Department of State was engaging in election interference, trying to stop all of this national attention from translating into new voter registrations,” Pressler said.
In the end, Trump’s Butler rally, marked by a rousing speech and a brief appearance by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, was ultimately a success.
Typical. Lucky somebody was vigilant, and reduced the damage of the scheme.
Shoot the Pennsylvania Secretary of State.
Not really a good reply from an NRA member, on an NRA site.
This is how the Dems roll. However Trump trumped them with 60,000 + attendees at the rally. The dems are so stupid – they do stunts like this which only serves to highlight their desperation.
Is there any reason why they couldn’t do their upgrade at 3 AM while most people were asleep?
There is LITTLE excuse for scheduling the downtime except between midnight and 5am any time. There is ZERO excuse for scheduling downtime on an election related website between August and the election.
Democrats are pulling out all the stops. On X, the former Twitter, Elon Musk’s subordinates are staging a Silent Sedition by restricting many Conservatives accounts so that they can’t post, re-post (retweet), like anything, or follow any new followers. All they are allowed to do is make changes on their profile page. Some are taking advantage of that by posting what X Administrators/Moderators are doing to them on the area used for a background ‘header’ to their accounts. Warnings have also been posted on Facebook/Meta about the insubordinate X Administrators/Moderators, who at the same time are allowing a huge number of ‘bots’ in support of Harris/Walz. They can be spotted because their account names are a name followed by 8 digits/numbers. It’s unbelievable to what extent these Fascist Democrats will go to obtain supremacy and suppress the 1st Amendment.
Damn censorship
Of course it’s a coincidence. Who could possibly think that the Dem wits running the state would indulge in election interference to their advantage?
I see the dem commies are now taking ugly pills with their stupid pills.