These threats have, in some cases, delayed voting and thus delayed counting,” Easterly said. She described the threats as “one of many disruptions … within an incredibly complex event that involves hundreds of thousands of election workers and tens of thousands of polling places.

An already heated presidential race faced further strain from a string of reported bomb threats in battleground states—causing some delays on Election Day. The FBI said in a statement it was aware of the threats, many of which originated from Russian ...

No bombs were found, and disruptions to voting were minimal. The FBI said threats made in Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan and Arizona came from Russian email domains.