Russia rejects links to bomb scares at polling places in key US states
Al Jazeera
Russian Embassy in Washington, DC says insinuations of Moscow’s interference in US election are ‘malicious slander’.
Moscow has described as “malicious slander” reports that fake bomb threats directed at polling locations in four battleground states in the United States election – Georgia, Michigan, Arizona and Wisconsin – originated from Russian email domains and were part of an interference operation.
Several polling sites targeted by the scares in Georgia were briefly evacuated on Tuesday.
“None of the threats have been determined to be credible thus far,” the US’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said in a statement, noting that many of the hoax bomb warnings “appear to originate from Russian email domains”.
An FBI official said that Georgia received more than two dozen threats, most of which occurred in Fulton County, which encompasses much of Atlanta, a Democratic Party stronghold.
The threats led to two polling locations in Fulton County, Georgia, being evacuated. Both locations re-opened after about 30 minutes, officials said, and the county was seeking a court order to extend the location’s voting hours past the state-wide 7pm (00:00 GMT) deadline for closing.
