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Russian embassy denies accusations of Moscow’s meddling in US election

From CNN's Daria Tarasova and Edward Szekeres

The Russian flag flies above the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Washington, DC, in February 2022.

Russia’s embassy in the United States has denied accusations of Moscow’s interference in the US presidential election after authorities said hoax bomb threats to polling stations appeared to originate in Russia.

The FBI confirmed Tuesday that bomb threats to polling locations in several states likely stemmed from Russian email domains. Though the FBI said none of the threats were determined to be credible, they forced the temporary closure of several polling places.

It comes after US intelligence last month assessed that Russian operatives were behind a fake video purporting to show someone destroying mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania in late October.

The Russian embassy in Washington said the US accusations were “slanderous and baseless.”

The embassy said it “did not receive any evidence in its contacts with US officials or even any requests regarding the story being promoted in the press,” and accused US authorities and media of “hysterics” over alleged Russian disinformation related to elections.

Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov has repeatedly denied any electoral interference by Moscow, saying the allegations were “absolutely unfounded,” according to RIA Novosti.

CNN has reported that a spinoff of the Russian “troll factory” that targeted the 2016 US presidential election appeared to be at the heart of a disinformation campaign trying to sway Western and especially US audiences, according to a joint investigation with researchers at Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub.

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Remaining absentee ballots beginning to be processed and counted in Detroit, city official says

From CNN’s Jim Sciutto, Matt Hosford and Alison Main

Detroit voters at the polls inside Central United Methodist Church on November 5 in downtown Detroit.

Some of the remaining ballots left to be tabulated in Detroit are being brought into the city’s counting center, a top official said in the early hours of Wednesday.

City election workers had been waiting for a final batch of 4,500 ballots to be delivered. A portion of those ballots are now in the convention center where votes are being counted, while other ballots from that tranche are still undergoing signature verification before they can be tabulated.

“That’s it tonight,” Detroit Elections Department Chief Operating Officer Daniel Baxter told reporters, adding that as signatures are verified on the outstanding ballots, they’ll be brought into the center to be counted.

The 86,000 absentee ballots that Detroit was able to count ahead of Election Day, thanks to Michigan’s new laws, have already been reported to Wayne County, Baxter said.

About 14,000 absentee ballots were received in the city today, including the 4,500 that are being processed currently.

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