https://www.cnet.com/news/twitter-deletes-over-10k-accounts-discouraging-voting-in-midterm-elections-report-says/

"For the election this year we have established open lines of communication and direct, easy escalation paths for state election officials, DHS, and campaign organizations from both major parties," a Twitter representative said. "We removed a series of accounts for engaging in attempts to share disinformation in an automated fashion -- a violation of our policies. We stopped this quickly and at its source."

Twitter has been working to step up its fight against fake accounts. In July, it was reported that the social media company was suspending more than 1 million accounts a day in its battle against disinformation. In a June blog post, Twitter said it's "now removing 214 percent more accounts for violating our spam policies on a year-on-year basis." Twitter's efforts to combat bots and trolls come as it deals with revelations that Russian-linked social media troll accounts may have influenced the 2016 US presidential election.