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Fortune
Brooke Seipel

FBI says Russian meddlers are behind fake Election Day bomb threats targeting critical polling places in swing states

oters head into a polling location to cast their ballots on the last day of early voting for the 2024 election on November 1, (Credit: Photo by Megan Varner/Getty Images)

Multiple polling places in critical battleground states faced Election Day bomb threats on Tuesday, with the FBI ultimately linking the false threats to Russian actors in a new act of election meddling.

"The FBI is aware of bomb threats to polling locations in several states, many of which appear to originate from Russian email domains," the FBI said in an official statement following the threats. "None of the threats have been determined to be credible thus far."

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