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        2 days ago

        The most alarming development on Tuesday was more than 30 bomb threats that were called into election locations, according to CBS News, including two that temporarily shut down two polling locations in Georgia. Both were “non-credible” and from Russia, Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger said. Voting hours were extended at five polling places in Fulton county as a result.

        Well that certainly sounds bad, but it also sounds like a weak attempt at creating chaos. There are 100,000 polling places, they emailed bomb threats to “more than” 30 and apparently the return address on at least some were russian domains. And they were declared false and the polling places extended hours.

        It’s bad, and it’s clearly designed to help trump, but I can’t see it swinging an election. Obviously it would add to the rest of it, but given what could have happened (i.e. MAGA chuds circling the parking lots with guns or some shit) it doesn’t sound like that was much of a factor.

        I mean, if 35 fake bomb threats can win you the presidency we should have figured that out before, right?