Voting was interrupted for about three hours Tuesday when a pipe bomb was found outside an Iowa polling location, officials said.
A couple walking their dog found the device just before 9:30 a.m. outside Lakeside Center, a multipurpose building in Ankeny, according to police and Jamie Fitzgerald, the Polk County auditor and elections commissioner.
Lakeside Center, about 15 miles north of downtown Des Moines, was one of the 14 sites in Ankeny where voters were casting their ballots on a school spending measure.
Ankeny Police & Fire are currently on scene at the Lakeside Center investigating a suspicious device. The Lakeside Center has been evacuated. Please, avoid the area, updates will follow. #Ankenylakeshore @CityOfAnkeny
— Ankeny Police (@AnkenyPolice) March 2, 2021
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Source: NBC News/Ankeny Police/Twitter