Many US election offices received bomb threats

Mail ballot processing office in the town of Industry, California

Reuters news agency on November 9 quoted local officials as saying that US election offices in the states of Maryland and California received bomb threats and authorities were investigating, while everyone was safe.

Election officials were counting mail-in ballots for the US presidential election in Maryland when they were threatened on November 8 (local time). Official Jared DeMarinis said the threat forced the evacuation of several buildings.

He called the threats "cowards," adding that local officials would resume counting votes on November 9.

"The Baltimore County Police Department is aware of and is currently investigating a bomb threat received via email by the Baltimore County Board of Elections Office," police posted on social media platform X, later adding that the investigation determined the threat was unfounded.

In Orange County, California, a bomb threat was made to a voter registration office in Santa Ana. The office building was evacuated and search dogs were brought in. Officials said no explosives were found.

The Riverside County, California, registrar of voters said the county's central counting building was also evacuated due to a threat, but bomb squads found no explosives.

The offices of California Governor Gavin Newsom and Maryland Governor Wes Moore said they are monitoring the situation and working with local officials on related incidents.

In another development, authorities in the US are investigating a wave of anonymous text messages that have caused alarm in African-American communities across the country.

The messages were sent to recipients in several states, including Alabama, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia, urging them to go to plantations to harvest cotton, an offensive reference to former African slaves in the United States.

It is not clear who was behind the messages, how many people received them or why they were targeted. The FBI and other agencies are investigating.

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, a Republican, said her office and she had received the emails. Murrill, who is white, said she received a message that read, “Now that Donald Trump is president, you have been selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation” and “our people will be coming to pick you.”

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