FAKE Russian bomb threats in key states of Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania They forced citizens to evacuate and extended voting hours in several electoral centers on an election day that was relatively calm in the rest of the country.
Threats also occurred throughout the day at voting centers in the metropolitan area of Atlanta, in the state of Georgia and in 32 of Georgia’s 177 county voting centers Fulton (Georgia). At the time of the threats, a large number of Democrats were exercising their right to vote and the centers were evacuated for almost an hour.
Same situation in another dozen Electoral Colleges of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin And in three voting centers in the county NavajoArizona. In Maricopa County, Arizona, false bomb threats were targeted against the Superior Court building and the Governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro confirmed to CNN that several bomb threats against municipal buildings and voting centers were investigated.
Behind these threats lie “Russian interference” and the FBI has already confirmed that they came from “Emails from the Russian domain.” The threats were classified after a preliminary investigation as “not credible”, although they did not prevent chaos and emergency evacuations.
Of 177 polling places in Fulton County, Georgia, 32 were subject to bomb threats on Election Day. Police Chief W. Wade Yates confirmed that only five sites were briefly evacuated before voting was safely resumed. pic.twitter.com/yK1HkEaFWY
—The Associated Press (@AP) November 6, 2024
Software crashes
In another key state, Pennsylvania, software problems in ballot-reading machines forced a judge to extend voting by two hours in Cambria County.
The Pennsylvania Department of State acknowledged Cambria County’s problems in a statement and explained that “all completed ballots will be accepted, placed in a secure location, and counted by the Board of Elections.”
Also in Pennsylvania, authorities said they were investigating hundreds of cases of suspected voter registration fraud in six counties.
Threats
While in the the state of New York, A man was arrested in the town of Hunter, when he threatened polling station staff with burn the building after being informed that he could not vote because he was not registered.