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Local election workers have been under siege since 2020. Now they ... - KTNV 13 Action News Las Vegas

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ATLANTA (AP) — While workers were counting ballots for primary elections in August, the elections office in King County, Washington, received a suspicious envelope that turned out to contain trace amounts of fentanyl.

It happened again this week, and not just in Washington state, where the office was processing ballots from the general election and had to be evacuated. Election offices in at least five states were sent threatening mail, some containing the potentially deadly drug, authorities say.

LOCAL: Nevada officials investigating 'suspicious letters' sent nationwide to election offices

Authorities were working to intercept any additional letters still in the mail system, including one bound for Atlanta's Fulton County, the largest voting jurisdiction in one of the nation's most important presidential swing states. Officials said Friday afternoon the letter sent to the Georgia office had been located.

The letters were just the latest worrisome disruption for election workers in Seattle and across the country who...



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