Foreign influence efforts reached a fever pitch during the 2024 elections

Voters line up to cast their ballots on Nov. 5, 2024 in Austell, Georgia. Intelligence officials and researchers say Russia, Iran, and China tried to influence Americans in this year’s election. But there’s no indication so far their efforts swayed results. Megan Varner/Getty Images

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The final stretch of the 2024 election was marked by a series of increasingly brazen attempts to influence voters and disrupt polling places. U.S. intelligence officials and researchers believe Russia and other foreign powers were behind the efforts.

On Election Day itself, hoax bomb threats were sent to polling locations in Georgia, Pennsylvania,

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