On election day, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI, has issued bomb threats at polling places throughout several US states.
According to the FBI, several of the bomb threats seemed to come from Russia, but none of them were real.
The FBI’s declaration follows reports from Georgia authorities that voting was momentarily interrupted Tuesday by bomb threats.
The 2024 US presidential campaign has been especially turbulent, according to a statement from the Bureau spokesperson, Savannah Syms. Because of worries about potential civil unrest, election-related violence, and violence against poll workers, security for Election Day has been stepped up to previously unheard-of levels.
Numerous bomb threats against polling places in various states are known to the FBI, and they seem to be coming from Russian email domains.
So yet, none of the threats have been found to be credible. “The public should continue to be alert,” she said.
Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, claimed the state has also determined that Russia was the source of the bomb threats that momentarily interrupted voting at polling stations.
Authorities are eager to convince anxious Americans that their votes are safe, as Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris are tied at the 2024 election’s end. However, they are also strengthening physical security for the country’s electoral procedures.
Security has been strengthened at many of the approximately 100,000 voting places in the United States, and the FBI has established a national election command post in Washington to keep an eye on threats around-the-clock during election week.
According to the Pentagon, at least 17 states have put 600 National Guard soldiers on standby in case they are called upon, while the states of Oregon, Washington, and Nevada have activated the National Guard.
