A bomb threat that was made targeting a polling location in Georgia was traced back to Russia and wasn’t credible, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said on Tuesday.
“We’ve heard some threats that were of Russian origin,” Raffensperger said at a news conference on Election Day. “In the interest of public safety, we always check that out, and we’ll just continue to be very responsible when we hear about stuff like that.”
Without elaborating on how officials determined where the bomb threat originated, Raffensperger said they “identified the source, and it was from Russia.”
The threats caused the closure of polling places in Union City, located near Atlanta, officials in Fulton County said in a statement on Tuesday. However, the county stressed that the polling sites at the Etris Community Center and Gullatt Elementary in Union City were closed only for a short period of time….