{"id":28866,"date":"2025-11-04T23:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T23:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/28866\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T23:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T23:54:10","slug":"3-manhattan-polling-sites-receive-election-day-terror-threats-in-likely-swatting-hoax-nypd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/28866\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Manhattan polling sites receive Election Day terror threats in likely swatting hoax: NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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\" data-ylk=\"slk:Election Day;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Election Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No <a href=\"https:\/\/vote.nyc\/page\/find-your-poll-site\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:polling sites;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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\" data-ylk=\"slk:three leading mayoral candidates.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">three leading mayoral candidates.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\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\" data-ylk=\"slk:swatting;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">swatting<\/a> attempt,\u201d the NYPD source said. \u201cThe emails make terroristic threats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Multiple bomb threats were made Tuesday morning to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AGPamBondi\/status\/1985751041283911702\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:various polling sites in New Jersey;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">various polling sites in New Jersey<\/a>, where a gubernatorial election is taking place. All were ultimately determined unfounded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Democratic mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani was asked after voting in Astoria early Tuesday about the threats across the Hudson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\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":28867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[6369,7496,75,84,83,9,24,63,103,4299],"class_list":["post-28866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-board-of-elections","tag-election-day","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-polling-sites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28866","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=28866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}