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Voting in multiple battleground states was disrupted on Tuesday as numerous polling place s 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.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. None of the threats have been deemed to be credible and officials said there does not appear to be any threat to the broader public, and the FBIearlier on Tuesday that many of the threats received by that point “appear to originate from Russian email addresses.
It’s unclear if all of the threats originated from Russia or if the threats were jointly coordinated: In Pennsylvania, York County officials said a threat there “appeared similar” to bomb threats in other states, but The Philadelphia InquirerJen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said Tuesday that the federal government is still investigating the bomb threats and the senders’ identity, the Associated Press.
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