The non-credible threats caused the temporary closure of polling places at the Etris Community Center and Gullatt Elementary in Union City, just outside of Atlanta, according to Fulton County Police. Union City’s population is nearly 90% Black ...

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Russia was to blame for the bomb threats in the state, adding that "they're not our friends."

At least two polling sites in the U.S. election battleground state of Georgia were briefly evacuated on Tuesday after fake bomb threats that election officials in the state blamed on Russian agents. The threats,

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.

Officials in Fulton County, Ga., said they received "multiple calls" and the threats forced a brief closure of two polling places.

Fake bomb threats sent to a few Georgia polling stations Tuesday forced their temporary closure—and some stations planned to remain open past the 7 p.m. deadline to accommodate voters, according to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger,