Was Russia or the Deep State Behind the 57 Polling Locations Across the Country that Received Bomb Threats?
Guest post by Joe Hoft at JoeHoft.com – republished with permission
During and after the 2024 Election, at least 57 polling locations across the country received bomb threats. Was this a targeted operation by Russia, China, or the Deep State?
A report from NBC from election night claimed that at least 50 election locations were targeted across multiple battleground states with bomb threats.
Hoax bomb threats targeting polling places and election offices briefly disrupted voting in five battleground states, with the FBI saying the threats in four of those states came from Russian email domains. The origin of the threats in the fifth state was not clear.
The threats targeted at least 50 sites across Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Wisconsin and Michigan, authorities said.
…The Russian Embassy in the U.S. said any accusation that it was behind the threats was “vicious slander” and “nonsense,” according to the government-owned news service RIA Novosti.
In Pennsylvania there were at least 13 voting locations throughout the state that reported bomb threats. The threats were reportedly received via email. Most were reported on election day.
An email announcing a bomb threat at the Chester County Government Services Center on 601 Westtown Road in West Chester was sent to Chester County Voter Services on Tuesday night, shortly before polls closed, according to investigators.
Chester County Emergency Officials responded to the building which was evacuated. The Chester County Sheriff’s Office K9 Unit conducted a sweep and determined the threat was unfounded. The building was later reopened.
The FBI blamed this incident [email] being from overseas origin. Does anyone trust this guy?
Officials said fake bomb threats targeting polling places in Pennsylvania and other swing states on Election Day appear to be Russian in origin. Full story HERE: https://t.co/XyVnonraGB pic.twitter.com/28h0DC9AAO
— NBC10 Philadelphia (@NBCPhiladelphia) November 6, 2024
The threats impacted polling places in Philadelphia as well, officials said.
Philadelphia police said they responded to bomb threats at the following locations between 6:43 p.m. and 6:55 p.m. on Tuesday:
The 900 block of South 7th Street
The 1000th block of South 4th Street
The 400 block of Queen Street
The 700 block of Catharine Street
The 1100 block of Catharine Street
The 200 block of Washington Avenue
The 900 block of Federal Street
The 1200 block of Wharton Street
The 1200 block of Carpenter Street
The 1000th block of East Erie Avenue
Police said all of the locations were searched by K-9 units and had negative results.
During a Tuesday night press conference, District Attorney Larry Krasner said there were also fake bomb threats at polling places on 1013 Elsworth Street and 66th Street and Chester Avenue in Philadelphia.
Krasner said both threats were unfounded. During one of the incidents, a man walked into a polling place and made a verbal threat but was later detained, according to Krasner.
In Georgia at least 12 locations were targeted with bomb threats.
In Georgia the corrupt Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger stated that there were between 5 and 7 precincts that reported bomb threats. He also blamed these on Russia. It was no surprise that Raffensperger provided no evidence that threats were indeed from Russia but he claimed they were while not knowing how many precincts received threats.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger confirmed Tuesday a bomb threat was made against a polling place, but he said it was of Russian origin and not credible. Raffensperger later clarified in a subsequent press conference that the threat affected between five and seven precincts in multiple Georgia counties.
Another account from Georgia reported that at least 34 bomb threats were received at five locations in Fulton County, two locations in Gwinnett County, and five locations in DeKalb county, for a total of 12 locations. The threats were apparently through email.
Raffensperger, a Republican, did not elaborate on how exactly state officials determined the bomb threats came from Russia.
The non-credible threats caused the temporary closure of polling places at the Etris Community Center and Gullatt Elementary in Union City, just outside of Atlanta, according to Fulton County Police. Union City’s population is nearly 90% Black, according to the US Census Bureau.
Fulton County announced that five polling places affected by the bomb threats will have their hours extended.
Robb Pitts, chair of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners, told CNN earlier he did not anticipate any potential delayed poll closings would impact the county’s ability to swiftly report results this evening.
A total of 32 bomb threats were made against the five polling places, Fulton County Police Chief W. Wade Yates said.
Two Gwinnett County election precincts sharing the same physical space will remain open until 7:58 p.m. ET after briefly closing Tuesday due to a received threat, Joe Sorenson, Gwinnett County spokesperson, told CNN.
The precincts in Gwinnett County were evacuated for approximately an hour while the bomb threat, which was deemed non-credible, was investigated.
Five additional polling places in DeKalb County were temporarily closed around 5 p.m. on Tuesday due to bomb threats and their voting hours were extended. These threats also appeared to originate from Russia, according to Raffensperger.
DeKalb County police said they did not find any bombs at any of the threatened polling places.
An FBI statement said it was aware of the threats but did not address their source.
“Election integrity and protecting our community is our highest priority, and the FBI is working closely with state and local law enforcement partners to respond to election threats and protect our communities as Americans exercise their right to vote,” the FBI said in a statement.
The statement said the bureau has no information to indicate the threat is credible.
One voter, Michael Osborne, said he believed something was wrong the moment he pulled up to his Union City polling site Tuesday morning and spotted EMS and police vehicles around the building. An officer told him and other voters they couldn’t enter the site to vote because of a bomb threat.
“They had to remove all the workers, they couldn’t let anyone in until they assessed the threats,” said Osborne.
After the election, there were seven counties in California that reported bomb threats. All were received via email.
In summary:
- At least 57 polling locations across the country received bomb threats during and after the 2024 election.
- Election counting stopped when the police arrived to check the facilities.
- No evidence of what occurred during the bomb threat reviews is available to date.
- Some of these facilities were left open for additional hours on election night after the bomb threat review was complete.
- The FBI blamed Russia on the threats almost immediately. Russian authorities claim these threats did not come from Russia.
- Many of the threats came via email. In one California County the email was received and sent to the spam folder and was not retrieved until days later.
- No bombs were reportedly found at any of these locations.
- President Trump won the Election in a landslide but multiple House and Senate seats were flipped from the GOP to the Democrat candidates in many of these states after election work paused at these various locations.
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