Suspicious letters have been reported at election offices in multiple states this week, and officials said that fentanyl was found in several of them.
In Washington state, election offices in King, Pierce, Spokane, and Skagit counties were evacuated as workers counted ballots during the Tuesday election, the secretary of state’s office said in a statement. Officials discovered that some of the letters contained “trace amounts of fentanyl” inside them, while some others had an “unharmful” substance inside.
