The L.A. County Registrar-Recorder’s headquarters in Norwalk received a bomb threat Saturday — the latest in a string of threats targeting vote counters and polling centers across the region and country.
No explosives were found at the site. An investigation is currently underway, according to L.A. County Registrar clerk Dean Logan.
“We take all such threats seriously and are working closely with the FBI, state authorities, and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to ensure the safety of our staff and community and maintain uninterrupted operations,” Logan said in a statement. “These threats and efforts to disrupt the legal, transparent, and secure process of counting all eligible ballots have no place in our electoral process.”
The threat came via email, according to L.A. County Registrar spokesperson Mike Sanchez. No employees were present, and none were scheduled to work at the office until Tuesday.
The source of the threat may have gotten their addresses mixed up — ballot processing centers have been the targets of a number of recent bomb threats, but the one for L.A. County is at a facility in Industry, not Norwalk. Authorities swept that facility as well and found nothing suspicious.