A left-wing website has been using a near-identical domain name as the Pennsylvania State Department to register new voters — with the catch that those voters’ contact information may be used for “political efforts and activities,” according to a report by Broad and Liberty’s Todd Shepherd.
Pennsylvanians can visit the official state website, vote.pa.gov, to register to vote. But some Pennsylvanians may be being duped by a very similar website that isn’t affiliated with the state: vote.pa.
The latter website, according to internet archives, directed individuals to “register to vote” at the top of its homepage. (“Sometime on Monday after Broad + Liberty had requested comment from the owners of Vote.pa, the website was changed so that the top option was ‘Check your Registration’” instead,
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