Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes briefed the media at approximately 6:15 p.m. EST and announced that and announced that his office is monitoring “a particular threat” and has received information from the FBI that there have been bomb threats made in Arizona pertaining to four specific locations in Navajo County.
Fontes called the threats “unsubstantiated,” and said, “we have no reason to believe that any of our voters or any of our polling places are in any sort of jeopardy.”
He added, “I was briefed just moments ago by my security team and some folks with state law enforcement who are working in conjunction with the Feds. This is another, what we believe, probing attack. And we also have reason to believe although I won’t get into specifics that this comes from one of our foreign enemies, namely Russia.”
“They’ve been busy lately I suppose,” he quipped alluding to similar threats made against polling locations in Georgia, Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin.
He added, “Russia wants to sow a lot of mistrust and distrust. They’ve been increasing their repetitiveness and their sort of directness in these attacks, spreading misinformation and disinformation. And, you know, Vladimir Putin would love for us to hate one another, so that doesn’t surprise me that it is. I don’t know that I’m at liberty to reveal anything more than my solid suspicion grounded in information that I’m not able to share yet.”
Fontes also reported some an ePoll book and printer problem in Apache County, Arizona noting that technical teams have been dispatched and that most voting sites are up and running well. Fontes reportedly met with the Navajo Nation Council and is working with the tribal government to resolve the matter.
According to The Hill, the emails the threats originated from were noted to come from Russian domains, in the same vein as threats that caused two polling location evacuations in Georgia.
Fontes emphasized that Arizonans should not expect any results prior to 8 p.m. local time for the first “bucket” of three “buckets” of returns, “Early, early ballots.” The subsequent buckets are “Election Day ballots,” that will be revealed through the evening “well after 8 p.m.” and depend on “central tabulation,” for many counties and the final being “all of the early ballots that are handed in on Election Day or which have not been processed yet,” which is expected to go on for several days.
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