US official sees little disruption to voting due to foreign interference – FBC News

(Source: Reuters)

A senior U.S. cyber official on Tuesday said his agency had not seen any major incidents reflecting foreign interference in the presidential election as the final hours of voting approached.

Cait Conley, a senior official at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, told reporters there was little evidence of significant disruption to election infrastructure as of 1:30 p.m. local time (1830 GMT).

Earlier Tuesday, the FBI warned Americans about two new fake videos citing terrorist threats and voter fraud; It’s the latest in a series of disinformation that officials expect to intensify, especially if uncertainty about the winner continues after Election Day.

A fabricated video purporting to be from a federal law enforcement agency falsely cited a high terrorist threat and encouraged Americans to “vote remotely,” while another video purported to be from the agency and a fake press release claiming fraudulent voting among inmates at five prisons Contains .

The Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a statement that both were false.

Hoax bomb threats hit a number of polling places in three battleground states, the bureau said in a statement later Tuesday.

US intelligence agencies last week accused Russia of a fake video showing a Haitian immigrant claiming to have voted multiple times in the US state of Georgia. Over the weekend, the FBI warned of several other fake videos.

Russia routinely denies interfering in American politics.

Many of the obstacles voters faced tended to be more mundane: long lines, paper jams and power outages.

Slowly updating computer software is delaying voters in Louisville, Kentucky, a local official told Reuters. A computer software glitch in rural Pennsylvania meant some ballots could not be tabulated immediately, officials said.

St. in Alabama In St. Clair County, some ballots had to be reprinted after officials noticed some local and state amendment questions were missing, the county’s website said.
Conley urged Americans to be careful as vote counting continues.