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SWATTING HITS NYC POLLS: FBI, NYPD Probe Terror Hoax Emails on Election Day

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Election Day in the Big Apple and Garden State just got a gut-punch of chaos courtesy of cowardly keyboard warriors.

Swatting attacks, those vile hoaxes engineered to unleash SWAT teams on innocents, are slamming polling places from Harlem to Jersey suburbs, all while voters decide razor-thin races.

NYPD and FBI agents are probing swatting attacks on New York City polling places, including a terror threat emailed to a Harlem site.

Cops in New York and New Jersey are already digging into bogus bomb scares mailed to election workers across state lines.

At least seven New Jersey counties — some deep-red Republican strongholds — got hit, officials said.

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The sabotage strikes as Garden State voters decide a knife-edge governor’s race between Rep. Mikie Sherrill, D-N.J., and GOP businessman Jack Ciattarelli.

In the five boroughs, the mayor’s contest pits Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani against resurgent ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a dead-heat sprint.

Three Manhattan vote centers — in Harlem, Greenwich Village and Midtown East— received emails vowing terror attacks between 6 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, an NYPD source said.

"We believe it’s an elaborate swatting attempt," the NYPD source told Daily News. "The emails make terroristic threats."

No sites have closed; ballots kept flowing as detectives hunt the hoaxers.

Board of Elections deputy chief Vincent Ignizio said he saw only one forwarded message flagged as a courtesy, not a live threat.

Democratic mayoral favorite Mamdani, after casting his ballot in Astoria, blasted the Jersey incidents.

"It’s incredibly concerning, and I think that it is an illustration of the attacks we’re seeing on our democracy," Mamdani said of the New Jersey threats.

And that’s the latest from a jittery Election Day in the Northeast, where authorities insist the vote goes on—undeterred.

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