# Fentanyl laced letters sent to election offices. November 2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 10, 2023, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fentanyl-laced-letters-sent-to-election-offices-november-2023/992938 "2023-11-10T14:42:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fentanyl-laced-letters-sent-to-election-offices-november-2023/992938/1 "2023-11-10T14:42:53Z")
From the USA Today: [Authorities](https://apnews.com/article/election-offices-letters-evacuations-fentanyl-threats-5d39155be4b2fcd5481b570cc109cb9c) are searching for the person or group responsible for sending suspicious letters, some of which contained fentanyl, to election offices in at least five states this week. This incident has delayed counting ballots in some local races and is the latest example of the threats faced by election workers across the country. This incident was reported to the election officials on Thursday. Several letters were sent to the election offices in Georgia, Nevada, California, Oregon, and Washington, the Associated Press reported. Some of these letters were intercepted before reaching their destination. According to a statement by the FBI and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, four of the letters contained fentanyl. Makes me want to volunteer at my election office. Bastards. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fentanyl-laced-letters-sent-to-election-offices-november-2023/992938/2 "2023-11-10T14:51:49Z")
> The letter contained a warning about the vulnerability of “ballot drops” and read: “End elections now. Stop giving power to the right that they don’t have. We are in charge now and there is no more need for them.” Well, based on that, it was surely a liberal that did it, so I guess we don’t need to investigate anyone with a Trump/MAGA flag in their front yard. Lets see how long it takes before the authorities track it back to the post office or mailbox where it was dropped and we get surveillance video of the suspect realizing they just did that on camera. I’m assuming this was done by multiple people and the person that mailed the baking soda chickened out (or couldn’t get any fentynal), but will end up in jail regardless. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fentanyl-laced-letters-sent-to-election-offices-november-2023/992938/3 "2023-11-10T15:00:44Z")
I just registered to be a volunteer. One of those letters went to my county. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fentanyl-laced-letters-sent-to-election-offices-november-2023/992938/4 "2023-11-10T15:38:47Z")
I think there are better ways to score free drugs. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fentanyl-laced-letters-sent-to-election-offices-november-2023/992938/5 "2023-11-10T15:40:16Z")
Hah! I’ll never have to listen to another Jardiance commercial. Showed them. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fentanyl-laced-letters-sent-to-election-offices-november-2023/992938/6 "2023-11-10T15:48:50Z")
Based on the nutty nature of the message, I’m guessing it came from a solitary nut. My intuitive order of probability: Solitary left-nut Solitary right-nut (posing as left nut) Small group of right nuts (posing) Small group of left nuts Small public right-wing organization (still nutty) ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fentanyl-laced-letters-sent-to-election-offices-november-2023/992938/7 "2023-11-10T15:53:56Z")
> [@](#): > > In the meantime, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said officials were sending the overdose-reversal drug naloxone to the office as a precaution. Looks like Brad is into the meme about casual exposure to fentanyl posing a deadly risk, though the article makes clear that’s not a realistic possibility. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fentanyl-laced-letters-sent-to-election-offices-november-2023/992938/8 "2023-11-10T15:59:48Z")
Overreacting to a potential exposure is one thing. Keeping a couple doses of Narcan in an office where someone attempted to harm people with fentynal, at least to me, doesn’t seem like a bad idea. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fentanyl-laced-letters-sent-to-election-offices-november-2023/992938/9 "2023-11-10T16:04:26Z")
> [@Baal\_Houtham](#): > > My intuitive order of probability: > Solitary left-nut > Solitary right-nut (posing as left nut) > Small group of right nuts (posing) I would be really surprised if it’s a left nut. The threat reads like what a right-winger _thinks_ a left-winger thinks like, not what any lefty I’ve ever encountered (and hoo boy have I encountered some ridonkulous lefties in addition to the excellent ones) thinks like. If it said something like “end kkkorporate politics” or “your colonial government is illegal on native land” or “divest now,” I’d be a little more willing to believe it was a left nut. But as it is? Nah. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fentanyl-laced-letters-sent-to-election-offices-november-2023/992938/10 "2023-11-10T16:06:46Z")
I agree with Left that the note was left by a righty ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fentanyl-laced-letters-sent-to-election-offices-november-2023/992938/11 "2023-11-10T16:36:53Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > I would be really surprised if it’s a left nut. The threat reads like what a right-winger _thinks_ a left-winger thinks like, not what any lefty I’ve ever encountered (and hoo boy have I encountered some ridonkulous lefties in addition to the excellent ones) thinks like. Yep, I agree. Not impossible, but it looks hinky. Tell #1 is the pentagram. Lefty goth whackadoodle? Well, maybe. But the right is far more inclined to believe conspiracy theories about the whacko left being interested in all things occult and potentially Satanic, than the whacko left is to actually be interested in such things. Tell #2 is the line - "We are in charge now and there is no more need for them.” I mean, I would guess that perhaps 0.0012% of the nutty left actually believes they are in charge of anything. That’s literally the opposite of the complaints of virtually all leftist radicals. However right-wing loons do seem to commonly believe in the Deep State nonsense, where leftists secretly manipulate the levers of power in their unending war to end elections and usher in an apocalyptic vision of a homosexual America where apple pie is banned forever. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fentanyl-laced-letters-sent-to-election-offices-november-2023/992938/12 "2023-11-10T17:15:30Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > an apocalyptic vision of a homosexual America where apple pie is banned forever. Album name? ---
**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fentanyl-laced-letters-sent-to-election-offices-november-2023/992938/13 "2023-11-10T17:37:59Z")
I think that was Camper van Beethoven ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fentanyl-laced-letters-sent-to-election-offices-november-2023/992938/14 "2023-11-10T18:02:49Z")
Fentanyl? Don’t you have to snort it or shoot it up or something? ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fentanyl-laced-letters-sent-to-election-offices-november-2023/992938/15 "2023-11-10T18:09:58Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > Makes me want to volunteer at my election office. Bastards. Good on you. Do it. Jump right in — the water’s warm! ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fentanyl-laced-letters-sent-to-election-offices-november-2023/992938/16 "2023-11-10T18:11:13Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I just registered to be a volunteer. One of those letters went to my county. Excellent. Thank you. See, I told you the water’s warm! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fentanyl-laced-letters-sent-to-election-offices-november-2023/992938/17 "2023-11-10T18:15:47Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > I would be really surprised if it’s a left nut. The threat reads like what a right-winger _thinks_ a left-winger thinks like, not what any lefty I’ve ever encountered (and hoo boy have I encountered some ridonkulous lefties in addition to the excellent ones) thinks like. 100% this. The letter is also signed with symbols for Antifa, Pride, and The Church of Satan. Transparently bogus. [![](https://d1hfln2sfez66z.cloudfront.net/11-09-2023/t_ac1ee043d5464836b74739c4179d6fef_name_Letter_laced_with_fentanyl_sent_to_Fulton_elections_office__officials_say.jpg) ](https://d1hfln2sfez66z.cloudfront.net/11-09-2023/t_ac1ee043d5464836b74739c4179d6fef_name_Letter_laced_with_fentanyl_sent_to_Fulton_elections_office__officials_say.jpg) Reminds me of the obvious hoax letter referenced in this post. > [@Stupid Social Justice Warrior Bullshit O' the Day.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-social-justice-warrior-bullshit-o-the-day/782443/2003): > > While it sounds like it should be an Onion article… [Social justice warriors want universities to ‘ban veterans’](https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9646) But not to worry, veterans. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fentanyl-laced-letters-sent-to-election-offices-november-2023/992938/18 "2023-11-10T18:23:59Z")
Sheesss. Straight out of the Trump playbook. “I won, stop counting votes”. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fentanyl-laced-letters-sent-to-election-offices-november-2023/992938/19 "2023-11-10T19:30:57Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > According to a statement by the FBI and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, four of the letters contained fentanyl. And in the other offices, officials were heard saying “Nope. No fentanyl here. (whispered) what’s the street value of this stuff?” ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fentanyl-laced-letters-sent-to-election-offices-november-2023/992938/20 "2023-11-10T19:35:11Z")
> [@abcdefghij](#): > > I think that was Camper van Beethoven Key Lime Pie is banned. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fentanyl-laced-letters-sent-to-election-offices-november-2023/992938.md?page=2)