A Yuba County, California elections worker was luckily unharmed after being exposed to fentanyl on Tuesday while opening mail that did not otherwise seem suspicious, the Sacramento Bee reports.
The envelope was postmarked normally but no other details were available about whatever was sent. “We are grateful that no one was harmed in this incident and we will continue to exercise caution as we perform the important work of conducting elections,” Yuba County Elections Clerk-Recorder Donna Hillegas said in a statement. State police detectives are investigating the incident.
Last month Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced his office would start distributing Narcan to election workers in the state after he and his counterpart in Washington Steve Hobbs, as well as a number of local clerk’s offices, received mail laced with fentanyl.