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Escambia Voters Receive Threatening Emails; Federals Officials Say The Emails Are Spoofed
October 22, 2020
Several Escambia County voters have received a threatening email, according to the Escambia County Supervisor of Elections Office.
“We are aware of an email threatening Florida voters, including some in Escambia County. We have been working with federal, state and local law enforcement on the matter. Voter intimidation is both a federal and state crime,” the Escambia County Supervisor of Elections said on Twitter.
“You will vote for Trump on Election Day or we will come after you,” stated the threatening emails that have been received be registered Democrats across Florida and Alaska. “Change your party affiliation to Republican to let us know you received our message and will comply. We will know which candidate you voted for. I would take this seriously if I were you.”
The email falsely appeared to come from a now defunct website affiliated with the far-right Proud Boys. The emails address the recipient by name and conclude with the voter’s postal mail address — all information that in Florida is public record and freely available.
Wednesday night, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said Iran and Russia are working to influence the 2020 elections and have obtained voter registration information.
“This data can be used by foreign actors to attempt to communicate false information to registered voters that they hope will cause confusion, sow chaos, and undermine your confidence in American democracy,” he said. ”To that end, we have already seen Iran sending spoofed emails designed to intimidate voters, incite social unrest, and damage President Trump. You may have seen some reporting on this in the last 24 hours or you may have even been one of the recipients of those emails.”
Any voter that receives threatening emails can contact local law enforcement and forward the email to SOE@EscambiaVotes.com.
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21 Responses to “Escambia Voters Receive Threatening Emails; Federals Officials Say The Emails Are Spoofed”
no one with common sense would take this seriously.
Do your research. There are 24 countries that HATE America and Americans.
@Thomas Paine, lol
It’s ridiculous that your voter registration information is public record in Florida.
This the lefts attempt to cover Hunters stupidity and Sleepy Joe’s greed .
The claims that Hunters 3 laptops containing child porn among other things are the work of Russia and Iran are an attempt to silence their crimes .
This is just your typical, criminal democrat voter trying to make Trump look bad. Thankfully the majority don’t fall for these low brow tactics.
Soros is pulling out the stops. Watch the morning television and it’s wall to wall Doug Jones ads.
like the fake ” Official election boxes” that the republican’s party put out in California. Crooks!
Doesn’t matter which side is sending such emails, it’s a crime and whoever is behind it should be arrested and prosecuted!
@Bama89
Russia and Iran benefit from this because it is intended to confuse, divert, and undermine American democracy. Both nations benefit from chaos and political disarray in the US.
@Trump Supporter
As if racial divisiveness, voter suppression, lopsided gerrymandering, separation of families, financial benefit from COVID, rampant nepotism, and flat out lying is not enough to make us think Trump supporters were crooked.
Not to mention that this is representative of typical rhetoric from the Proud Boys while everyone seems to ignore that fact. Glad to see it was found to be outside influence and not from Americans trying to interfere in our process.
“Iran hates Trump“
Are you sure about that? Lol
So…….Iran/Russia sending threatening letters to democrats to vote for Trump is the fault of democrats? SMH
Probably some punk(s) computer nerds trying to cause trouble for the real Trump supporters.
DHS has confirmed that these are generated by Iran to influence the election. Iran hates Trump so getting him re-elected is definitely not their intention.
lol at all the republicans thinking this has to be the work of democrats because Trump supporters wouldn’t dare do anything like this. smh
Looks like typical tactics of Democrats.
Kinda weird how it’s always one side doing stuff like this.
Democrats will try anything to make you think Trump supporters are crooked, this is a perfect example.
My biggest concern is why this information is not locked down? Maybe we need to take a better look at what is “public domain”.
I surely hope these threats aren’t enough to hurt Trump, and I also hope we as Americans dig into situations like this and ALWAYS ask “why?”
Like, why would anyone from Russia or Iran want Trump to win???
I hope we ask ourselves these questions before we vote!!
Well, if it’s just a spoof…