4 NOV 25 SITREP

• Seven polling sites in New Jersey received bomb threats designed to halt in-person voting and generate panic among Election Day voters. Callers claimed explosives had been placed at active polling stations “to stop the rigged election,” citing false accusations of widespread fraud. In Toms River, police locked down the location, evacuated hundreds of voters, and blocked nearby roads while explosive-detection teams searched the property.
• Additional threats in Monmouth, Ocean, and Bergen Counties repeated similar language, stating the attacks were “retaliation for government corruption.” Local police and the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security concluded the threats were coordinated attempts to suppress voter turnout in Republican-leaning areas.
• The New York City Board of Elections received nearly identical emails claiming explosives were planted inside polling stations in Harlem, Greenwich Village, and Midtown East “to punish fraudulent voting.” The NYPD Bomb Squad evacuated the sites and sealed several city blocks, causing major traffic disruptions and halting voting for several hours.
• A separate message sent to Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, claimed that “the nation will pay for stolen elections,” leading to a full evacuation of two terminals and the grounding of flights for over two hours. Federal authorities determined the message’s origin matched the email servers used in the New Jersey and New York threats.

• In Chester County, Pennsylvania, independent voters discovered their names missing from digital poll books, preventing them from casting in-person ballots. County officials blamed a synchronization failure in the voter registration system that occurred overnight before Election Day.
• Several precincts in Chester County ran out of provisional ballots by midday. Delivery trucks from the county warehouse were delayed by over two hours, forcing many voters to leave polling sites without voting.
• New Jersey precincts in Essex and Middlesex Counties reported repeated scanner jams that required technicians to clear machines manually. These malfunctions slowed ballot processing and caused long lines extending outside polling places.
• Poll watchers across both states documented that the breakdowns disproportionately affected same-day voters, creating an uneven process that fueled accusations of systemic negligence and intentional suppression.

• In Mexico, the mayor of Uruapan, Carlos Manzo, was shot and killed during a Day of the Dead celebration in the city’s main square in Michoacán. The forty-year-old mayor had gained national attention for openly confronting cartel activity and ordering local police operations against organized crime groups in the region.
• Following the assassination, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in both Uruapan and the state capital, Morelia. Protesters stormed the government palace in Morelia, smashed windows, and defaced walls before police deployed tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd.
• Demonstrators carried banners reading “Justice for Manzo” and “Enough with all this crime,” accusing local officials and state security forces of ignoring cartel infiltration and failing to protect elected leaders who opposed criminal organizations.
• The United States Department of State and the U.S. ambassador to Mexico publicly condemned the killing and announced expanded cooperation with Mexican security agencies to dismantle cartel networks. Mexico’s federal security minister confirmed that two suspects were arrested and that the alleged shooter was killed at the scene.