The Pennsylvania Department of State has pushed back maintenance of its online voter registration website amid complaints from the Republican National Committee.
The original scheduled downtime for the state’s voter registration website would’ve overlapped with a campaign rally for former President Donald Trump in Butler Township, Pennsylvania; the same venue where he narrowly survived an assassination attempt on July 13.
The department, which oversees elections in Pennsylvania, posted a notice on Oct. 1 telling residents in the state that the online voter registration website would be inaccessible between 6 p.m. on Oct. 5 and 12 a.m. on Oct. 6. During this maintenance period, the notice stated the voter registration website would be unavailable to users....
