DEEP DIVE — In a minimum of 5 battleground states Tuesday, polling locations had been focused by bomb threats, “a lot of which seem to originate from Russian e-mail domains,” in accordance with the FBI. Whereas the bureau discovered no proof of precise bombs, there have been dozens of threats, a lot of which led to evacuations and delays or disruptions within the voting. Taken collectively, the hoaxes represented a surprising second for a U.S. election: bomb threats traced to a different nation, aimed toward disrupting the American electoral course of.
“They’re as much as mischief, it appears,” mentioned Georgia’s Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, who echoed the FBI assertion and blamed Russia for the bomb threats. A senior official in Raffensperger’s workplace, talking on situation of anonymity, informed Reuters that the Georgia threats had been despatched from e-mail addresses that had been utilized by Russians attempting to intrude in previous U.S. elections.
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