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.

Hoax bomb threats targeting polling places and election offices briefly disrupted voting in five battleground states, with the FBI saying the threats in four of those states came from Russian email domains. The origin of the threats in the fifth state was ...