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THE FBI is investigating more than three million robocalls urging Americans to "stay home" on election day as California officials probed reports of a fake polling station.
A clip shared on on Tuesday allegedly shows "a phony voting center" being run by supporters of a GOP congressional candidate.
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In the footage, the person filming can be seen approaching two people wearing Republican Michelle Steel T-shirts and demanding to know "what's in the box? Is it trash or is it ballots?"
"No, that's trash, man," one man insists as he holds up ripped paper and brown envelopes.
"Nah, man, nah. It looks like [inaudible] ripping some ballots," the man filming retorts. "Looks like they ripping some ballots."
Orange County Registrar of Voters, Neal Kelley issued a statement in response to the footage, saying: "There is an ongoing investigation and we are working with the District Attorney’s office."
The disturbing video was shared by earlier today, who claimed "these are the people running a fake Voting Center in Westminster, CA."
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The Twitter user urged people to "double-check the address of your vote center on an official website" rather than trusting hand-made "Vote Here" signs.
The footage initially emerged on and was shared by a user called Ty from Westminster, .
As Americans cast their vote for or his rival today, revealed thousands of people in swing states were targeted by cryptic robocalls.
A tracking firm discovered that over three million calls were made around the country on Election Day, urging voters to “stay safe and stay home".
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The publication noted that this is a tactic used to confuse some 800,000 people with numbers tied to six presidential swing states – with more than 798,000 calls made in on Election Day so far.
It's now drawn the attention of the and Attorney General Letitia James, all of whom are investigating the matter.
ProPublica cited the call recordings provided by TelTech, which owns the RoboKiller smartphone app.
Apparently, the bizarre phone calls began in December before news of the erupted in the after the first documented case in Wuhan, .
There was a big spike of similar calls in recent days urging people to “stay safe and stay at home” here, and as far as .
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As well as the spate of calls in TX, robocalls targeted over 534,000 numbers in area codes; more than 93,000 numbers; 89,000 in and 60,000 in .
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But others went to people in non-contested states, like and , as and battle it out for .
News of the phony voting booth in CA emerged as ProPublica revealed that 146,000 phone numbers were behind the slew of robocalls in other states.
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