{"id":28538,"date":"2025-11-04T19:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T19:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/28538\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T19:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T19:14:11","slug":"3-manhattan-polling-sites-receive-election-day-terror-threats-in-likely-swatting-hoax-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/28538\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Manhattan polling sites receive Election Day terror threats in likely swatting hoax: NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Workers at three Manhattan polling sites received emails threatening a terror attack Tuesday \u2014 but an NYPD source said investigators believe it\u2019s part of a hoax to drum up fear on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/11\/04\/nyc-election-results-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Election Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No <a href=\"https:\/\/vote.nyc\/page\/find-your-poll-site\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">polling sites<\/a> have been shut down, the source said, with voting continuing as the NYPD and federal authorities try to figure out who is behind the emails.<\/p>\n<p>The emails were sent between 6 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. to the Board of Elections and were opened by polling site workers in Harlem, Greenwich Village and Midtown East, the source said.<\/p>\n<p>The emails did not reference any of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/11\/02\/more-than-700000-cast-ballots-in-early-voting-as-nyc-mayoral-race-on-track-for-historic-turnout\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">three leading mayoral candidates.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe it\u2019s an elaborate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2023\/10\/18\/more-than-10-new-york-state-schools-hoaxed-in-swatting-incidents-hochul-says\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">swatting<\/a> attempt,\u201d the NYPD source said. \u201cThe emails make terroristic threats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vincent Ignizio, the Bord of Election\u2019s deputy executive director, said he was aware of one email, not three, forwarded to the board as a heads up rather than as a threat. He said he had been told the threat was being deemed \u201cnot credible\u201d by the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>Swatting is a form of cyber harassment designed to trigger a major law enforcement response to a phony emergency or threat, such as a mass shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Similar threats were made Tuesday morning in New Jersey, where a gubernatorial election is taking place.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani was asked after voting in Astoria early Tuesday about the swatting threats across the Hudson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s incredibly concerning, and I think that it is an illustration of the attacks we\u2019re seeing on our democracy,\u201d Mamdani said of the New Jersey threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Workers at three Manhattan polling sites received emails threatening a terror attack Tuesday \u2014 but an NYPD source&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-28538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-city","9":"tag-county","10":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-manhattan","14":"tag-manhattan-headlines","15":"tag-manhattan-news","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-new-york-county","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-nyc-crime","22":"tag-sub-county-region"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}