“For the people who run elections at thousands of local offices nationwide, 2024 was never going to be an easy year. But the recent anonymous mailing of powder-filled envelopes to election offices in five states offers new hints of how hard it could be,” the New York Times reports.
“The letters, sent to offices in Washington State, Oregon, Nevada, California and Georgia this month, are under investigation by the U.
S. Postal Inspection Service and the F.B.I. Several of them appear to have been laced with fentanyl; at least two contained a vague message calling to ‘end elections now.'”