The RIA news agency quoted the embassy as saying: “All insinuations about Russian machinations are malicious fabrications, fabricated for use in the internal political conflict.” For the United States“.
Russia has recently received accusations of interference in… American elections The most recent was related to a video spread on social media platforms of an immigrant saying that he voted more than once in the elections.
And it was Federal Bureau of Investigation He has said that the bomb threats made to several states came from Russian email domains and are considered unreliable.
The Bureau of Investigation did not specify the states involved, but the state secretary of state Georgia Brad Raffensperger said earlier Tuesday that the state’s election process had received some bomb threats, which he said came from… Russia.
Officials in Fulton County, Georgia, reported that they received “multiple calls” and that threats forced authorities to briefly close two polling places.
Bomb threats were among many disturbances tracked by American officials.
However, Kate Connelly, advisor to the agency’s director Cyber security And infrastructure security, she told reporters in a phone call on Tuesday that there were no security incidents at the national level that threatened to disrupt the elections on a large scale.
Officials continue to warn about what they say is an unprecedented level of foreign influence and disinformation that they expect to continue after Election Day.