Under siege since 2020, election workers now face fentanyl-laced letters

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : ATLANTA -- 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.
62% : King County was one of at least four counties in Washington with election offices that were evacuated this week after they received envelopes containing suspicious powders -- including two that field-tested positive for fentanyl -- while workers were processing ballots from Tuesday's election.
60% : She is confident her team is doing everything it can to keep workers safe but knows there are no guarantees given the vitriol displayed by some voters and combustibility of false election claims.
46% : Kim Wyman, the former secretary of state in Washington, said election workers are worn down from the harassment they have received in the past few years but are focused on ensuring an accessible and secure election.
45% : Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, the state's top election official and a Republican, said his office had alerted all 159 of its counties of the possible threat.
43% : "Congress paying attentionNationally, the harassment of election workers has drawn the attention of Congress, state lawmakers and law enforcement.

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