The election warehouse in Fulton County, where votes are still being counted the morning after Georgia’s Senate run-off race was closely guarded on election night after a bomb threat was called in last week and voting workers and officials from the country from the site followed. Tuesday night to a parking deck.
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Fulton County Election Director Rick Barron told WSB-TV that a man in Tennessee called in the bomb threat last Wednesday, but no arrests were made after authorities investigated.
“The person said the Nashville bombing was an exercise in what we would see on one of our polling stations today,” Barron told the network Tuesday night.
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In addition, police responded to reports that land and ballot box workers were being followed from the polling station and confronted while locking ballot boxes and at the ballot box, according to WSB-TV.
A Fulton County Police Department spokesman did not respond to Fox News’ request for more details about the incident.
Georgia’s run-off matches – the outcome of which will be crucial in determining the balance of power in the Senate – are being closely watched, especially as President Trump has continued the attacks on the state and made unfounded allegations of widespread voter fraud in several provinces. – including Fulton, a Democratic stronghold – during the presidential election.
The turnout is expected to be higher than the November election.
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In a handful of provinces, polls are still being counted to determine the winner in the tight race between former Senator David Perdue and Democrat Jon Ossoff.
Meanwhile, Democrat Raphael Warnock is expected to defeat Senator Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., According to Fox News’ decision bank early Wednesday.