Authorities said the voter registration offices of Orange and Riverside counties were closed Friday after receiving a bomb threat.

The bomb threat was “communicated to” the registrar’s main facility on Berger Drive in North San Jose about 8 a.m. Saturday, leading to the evacuation of the building. Vote counting was suspended until the building can be cleared, according to the report.

Registrars of voters' offices in Orange and Riverside counties were evacuated Friday evening after receiving bomb threats, but no explosives were located at either site.

Deputies evacuated the Orange County Registrar of Voters after it received a bomb threat at its Santa Ana office.

Since Americans around the country exercised their right to vote on Election Day, a couple of ballot processing centers have been forced to evacuate. In both Orange and Riverside counties, bomb threats prompted their registrar of voters to evacuate for a short period as ballot processing was taking place.

Orange County’s elections office, where ballots were being counted, received a bomb threat Friday afternoon, the registrar said. Staff and members of the public who were watching ballots being tallied were evacuated from the Santa Ana building at about 6:45 p.