DEEP DIVE — All through Election Day and an extended election evening, one main story had nothing to do with the outcomes on the poll field.
In at the very least 5 battleground states Tuesday, polling locations had been focused by bomb threats, “lots of which seem to originate from Russian e-mail domains,” in response to the FBI. Whereas the bureau discovered no proof of precise bombs, there have been dozens of threats, lots 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, geared toward disrupting the American electoral course of.
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