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Daniel Chen, 65, reportedly threatened to bomb a polling station because he was fed up with automated election-related calls.
(Brevard County Sheriff's Office)
At least two threats were reported Monday and Tuesday at the scene of the elections.
In Florida, Daniel Chen, 65, was arrested Monday after calling the Brevard County Election Supervisor's Office and threatened to "blow up" the building in an effort to stop incessant automated calls, announced the police.
"The investigation has begun [Monday] The election supervisor contacted the sheriff's office to inform him that the caller had received a phone call from a man who was upset that he had received unsolicited calls from political candidates. " announced in a statement the Brevard County Sheriff's Office.
Daniel Chen told the police that he had tried to stop the calls throughout the week.
(Brevard County Sheriff's Office)
Chen said that he had been trying to stop calls throughout the week without success, the police told Fox News. He also provided his name and telephone number to the staff of the Elections Office.
The 65-year-old man has been accused of making a false bomb report and is currently being held on bail of $ 15,000.
On Tuesday, a man from Pennsylvania was arrested after threatening to shoot at a polling station, Fox News police said. The alleged incident occurred shortly before 9 am at the South Franklin Fire Station in Washington County, where the man allegedly complained to the election officials about promising him a gun and money. he voted "right wing party," WPXI reported.
The man apparently got angry when election officials told him he was not registered and threatened to return to the polling station and shoot, according to WPXI.
The Washington County Sheriff's Office told Fox News that state police were conducting the investigation.
A polling station in Palm Bay, Brevard County, was also briefly locked up after someone reported seeing a man sitting in his car with a gun, Florida newspaper reported. Today.
The incident was quickly settled and the voting room reopened.
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