Just a brief update. There were dozens upon dozens of bombing threats e-mailed or phoned in across the country yesterday, especially in the key swing States like Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia, where polling had to be extended over an hour because "incidents" occurred that brought all voting to a halt.
Election Day Bomb Threats: Swing States Face Threats Blamed On Russia—Here’s What We Know
Alison Durkee
Forbes Staff
Voting in multiple battleground states was disrupted on Tuesday as numerous polling places received death threats, many of which the FBI said it determined had ties to Russia, prolonging polling place hours and raising the specter of election interference.
A voter enters a polling station on November 5 in Norcross, Georgia.
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Polling places in states including
Arizona,
Pennsylvania,
Georgia,
Michigan and
Wisconsin have been targeted by bomb threats, law enforcement has confirmed, which led to evacuations and voting getting paused—though it’s not clear if they’re all linked.
Courts have allowed many affected polling places to extend their voting hours because of the disruptions, which means it will take longer for full results to be reported in battleground states.
Many targeted polling places were in areas that favor Democratic candidates, including Philadelphia and predominantly Black areas around
Atlanta.
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The FBI, despite calling them "non-credible threats," is warning that they will intensify in coming weeks:
In Fulton County, Ga., officials said they received bomb threats at 32 of the 177 polling places, resulting in brief closures at five of them... “These activities will intensify through election day and in the coming weeks, and that foreign influence narratives will focus on swing states,” the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, FBI, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said in a joint statement. (Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin report bomb threats originating in Russia as Americans cast ballots, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 5th, 2024).
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Georgia was disrupted the most.
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