DEEP DIVE — All through Election Day and a protracted election evening, one main story had nothing to do with the outcomes on the poll field.
In a minimum of 5 battleground states Tuesday, polling locations have been focused by bomb threats, “a lot of which seem to originate from Russian e-mail domains,” in keeping 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 shocking second for a U.S. election: bomb threats traced to a different nation, aimed toward disrupting the American electoral course of.
