2024 Election: Pinal County prepares to keep workers safe from fentanyl

Every election, thousands of early ballots are mailed back and opened by election workers. At the same time, however, election workers might encounter something other than ballots. "Unfortunately, in 2023, there were some states where early voting departments received some envelopes that had suspicious substances in them," said Pinal County Recorder Dana Lewis. According to the FBI and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, there were a number of suspicious envelopes that were sent to election offices in 2023. These envelopes were received in California, Georgia, Nevada, Oregon and the state...