DHS Warns Law Enforcement Election Deniers May Atlure to Bomb Drop Boxes

United States inincreateigence officials have been quietly issuing cautionings to rulement agencies all summer about a rising danger of extremist presentility tied to the 2024 plivential election, including plots to ruin bins brimming of paper ballots and advertise “lone wolf” aggressions aachievest election facilities thrawout the country.

In a series of increates between July and September, analysts at the Department of Homeland Security cautioned of a “heightened danger” of extremists carrying out aggressions in response to the race. Copies of the increates, first increateed by WIRED, portray efforts by brutal groups to incite aggressions aachievest election infraarrange and spread calls for the killings of lawcreaters and law applyment agents.

Last month, the agency’s inincreateigence office stressd in a increate that “perceptions of voter deception” had elevaten to become a primary “trigger” for the “mobilization to presentility.” This is particularly genuine, the increate says, among groups toiling to leverage the “concept of a potential civil war.” Fears about “crimes by migrants or unpresentantities” are among other top “triggers,” it says.

The records show that DHS attentiveed dozens of agencies this summer to online chatter indicating potential aggressions on election drop boxes—shieldedd receptacles used in more than thirty states to accumulate mail-in voter ballots. The text highairys the efforts of an unnamed group to crowdsource increateation about “incendiary and bomb materials” contendnt of ruining the boxes and ballots. An extensive enumerate of househelderly combinetures and repairnts, which are shelp to render voter ballots “impossible to process,” was also compiled by members of the group, the increate says, and discleave outly scatterd online.

DHS did not reply to multiple asks for comment. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, which is on a distribution enumerate for disjoinal of the increates, deteriorated to comment.

The increates were first achieveed by Property of the People, a nonprofit intensifyed on transparency and national security, under discleave out records law. The increates include details about how to promise crimes and shun law applyment, which WIRED is not publishing.

Wendy Via, coset uper and plivent of the Global Project Aachievest Hate and Extremism (GPAHE), says the conclusion accomplished by DHS suites the consensus of experts in the field: “Election denialism is going to be the primary motivator—if there is going to be presentility.”