FBI New Haven Office Tells Voters Election Day Is Wednesday, Not Tuesday
A since-uncorrected X post from the FBI's New Haven field office gave the wrong date for the midterms hours before polls opened, drawing a Community Note and public criticism.
What to know
- The FBI's New Haven field office told voters Election Day was Wednesday, not Tuesday 3 November, in an X post hours before Connecticut polls opened.
- The post had over 257,000 views and had not been deleted or corrected as of 2 a.m. ET Tuesday, despite an X Community Note flagging the error.
- The error comes amid separate litigation over DOJ's use of law-enforcement personnel as polling-place monitors, which the NAACP calls voter intimidation.
- A federal judge rejected the NAACP's emergency bid to limit DOJ's monitor selection the same day the FBI's wrong-date post remained uncorrected.
“For general elections, Election Day is always the first Tuesday after November 1.”
FBI, Official public guidance on election crimes · FBI guidance page
Ken Klippenstein Independent journalist
Kash Patel FBI Director
Richard Blumenthal US Senator (Connecticut)
Reggie Walton Senior US District JudgeKathryn Barragan Justice Department lawyerNAACP Plaintiff organization
How it unfolded 2 developments, newest first · click a bar or a number to jump posts
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Walton rejects NAACP bid to limit DOJ election monitors
The judge denied the NAACP's emergency request to restrict whom the Justice Department can send as monitors at polling places.
“Election day is Wednesday and the #FBI is working around the clock to ensure the midterms are safe…”
— FBI New Haven (X account), FBI field office social media account · source -
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🤦🏻♀️ "Hours before polls opened for midterms, FBI's New Haven field office told voters the wrong date for Election Day in a post promoting the bureau's work to protect the vote. 'Election day is Wednesday & FBI is working around the clock to ensure the midterms are safe,' the acct wrote on X on Mon" RE:
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The amount of cleanup that's going to be needed within the federal government is insane. The FBI used to be relatively competent and was where you'd go when local police were too corrupt to trust. After Trump, the FBI isn't even a law enforcement agency. They're just a wing of the Republican party and the muscle (along with ICE) of a wannabe…
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# FBI scrambles after giving voters blatantly false # ElectionDay info: 'How is this real' _____ The FBI’s # NewHaven , # Connecticut , field office pulled its own post Tuesday about the # midterms after # SocialMedia users quickly flagged a glaring error in it In an online post that was left up 4 hours, the FBI office in New Haven told its more…
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FBI post remains live with over 257,000 views
As of about 2:00 a.m. ET Tuesday, the uncorrected and undeleted post had accumulated more than 257,000 views.
“Why is the FBI falsely telling people that the election is on Wednesday?”
— Ken Klippenstein, Independent journalist, formerly The Intercept · source -
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Why is the FBI falsely telling people that the election is on Wednesday?
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FBI post about “how the FBI protects the integrity of elections” falsely tells people the election is Wednesday lol
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X users attach Community Note correcting the FBI post — A Community Note was added stating Election Day falls on Tuesday, 3 November, with the line 'Not Wednesday.'
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Klippenstein calls out the FBI's false post — Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein shared the FBI's post and questioned why it was spreading the wrong date; his post drew over 10,000 likes.
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FBI New Haven office posts wrong Election Day date on X — The office wrote 'Election day is Wednesday and the #FBI is working around the clock to ensure the midterms are safe,' roughly 14 hours before Connecticut polls opened; Election Day is actually Tuesday, 3 November.
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DOJ lawyer tells judge there is 'no problem' excluding sworn officers as monitors — At a hearing, department lawyer Kathryn Barragan put the monitor count at around 900; Judge Reggie Walton warned of consequences if the department had misstated who the monitors were.
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DOJ tells court FBI and ICE will not serve as election monitors — In NAACP litigation over the department's monitoring program, a declaration from acting Voting Section chief Eric Neff said monitors would instead come from the Bureau of Prisons, ATF, and DEA, and would not carry firearms.
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Patel tells Senate FBI agents will be 'manning the posts' on Election Day — At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, FBI Director Kash Patel said the bureau had election crimes coordinators in every field office and agents would be involved in guarding against election interference; Senator Richard Blumenthal said Patel failed to give an unambiguous commitment the FBI would stay out of election interference.
What people are saying 5 voices from 2 sites · best of 10 · verbatim
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early voting is not available in all states, unless laws changed in the past few years.
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There’s a reason they famously (or not so famously?) said “we want democracy, but not too much of it.”
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To conservatives the only fair election is one in which they win. Also If they win, it's by definition a fair election.
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So we as a society should make sure that as many people in this nation are properly informed and educated.
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Fact Check: U.S. Midterm Election Is NOT On Wednesday -- Despite What FBI New Haven Post Said https:// leadstories.com/hoax-alert/202 6/11/fact-check-fbi-new-haven-election-day-wednesday.html