Battleground states rush to count ballots after mostly smooth Election Day vote

Battleground states are counting the ballots that will decide the next US president into the early hours of Wednesday morning, after Election Day voting that largely went smoothly despite fake bomb threats that targeted multiple states.

Battleground states are counting the ballots that will decide the next US president into the early hours of Wednesday morning, after Election Day voting that largely went smoothly despite fake bomb threats that targeted multiple states. Bomb threats were reported across five key battleground states, both to polling places and government offices where votes are counted. The threats were not credible, but they led temporary closures to precincts in several states on Tuesday. The FBI, which engaged with local and state officials, confirmed that some of the threats originated from Russian email domains. Fulton County – a key Democratic-heavy county in Georgia – saw 32 threats on Tuesday, according to officials there. Now that the polls have closed in all states besides Alaska, which closes at 1 a.m. ET, attention is focused squarely on tabulating the ballots – and where there are still outstanding votes to count. There are multiple states that have yet to be called in the presidential race. While some sporadic issues popped up – long lines, isolated problems with machines, lawsuits and baseless claims of cheating – states reported a mostly straightforward Election Day. Here’s where things stand with the key states: