A bomb threat was emailed in Tuesday night to the Willowbank Office Building, home to Centre County’s elections office, and local police cleared the threat shortly after 8 p.m. According to Centre County Sheriff Bryan Sampsel, the threat was emailed in about 6:50 p.m., before about 40 or 50 people were evacuated.

I’ve been really looking forward to getting to exercise this right, and to be able to do it in such a monumental way in my first election feels really cool,” one Penn State student said.