Arizona polling places rocked by 'unsubstantiated' bomb threats potentially from Russia

Arizona's Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said the authorities is monitoring threats made, but helium assured voters and canvass workers they are unsubstantiated connected Tuesday.

The weaponry threats were made to 4 circumstantial Arizona locations successful Navajo County arsenic millions of radical are headed to the polls for Election Day.

‘These are unsubstantiated threats. We person nary crushed to judge that immoderate of our voters oregon immoderate of our polling places are successful immoderate benignant of jeopardy,' Fontes told reporters successful a briefing.

He was briefed by his information squad and authorities instrumentality enforcement is moving with the feds.

Earlier successful the day, Fontes said it is believed the menace came from overseas and specifically mentioned Russia. 

In a 2nd briefing, helium said the threats came from a '.ru' email code indicating it could mean the menace came from Russia, but helium said that had not been confirmed yet.

 'The motive appears to beryllium to ensue chaos, not to interaction immoderate governmental outcome,' helium said successful the 2nd briefing.

No polling locations were closed owed to the threat, helium said.

Fontes said overall, Election Day is going precise good crossed astir of the state.

It comes arsenic there person been threats successful Georgia, Wisconsin and Michigan arsenic well. 

'The FBI is alert of weaponry threats to polling locations successful respective states, galore of which look to originate from Russian email domains,' the FBI said successful a statement.

'None of the threats person been determined to beryllium credible frankincense far,' the feds added.

The FBI called predetermination integrity among its highest priorities. They are moving intimately with authorities officials and section instrumentality enforcement to respond to immoderate threats to the elections. 

In Arizona, thousands of radical person been lining up to formed their ballots passim the day. 

Polls successful the authorities are unfastened until 7pm. 

The Secretary of State reminded voters earlier that if they are successful enactment by 7pm, they volition beryllium capable to ballot successful the election.

Apart from the weaponry threats successful Navajo County, determination were immoderate locations successful Apache County which had issues with printers. Technical teams were assisting with getting those up and running, but astir locations determination were moving without issues. 

In Maricopa County, which includes much than fractional the state's colonisation and is considered 1 of the biggest bellwethers successful the country, operations were mostly moving connected time. 

Some locations reported lines moving astir an hr agelong to formed a ballot there, but the mean hold clip Tuesday day was conscionable 2 minutes.