Election Offices in at Least 32 States Have Received Suspicious Letters

Key points

• Election offices in at least 32 US states have received suspicious letters, according to a WIRED investigation. In Louisiana, an employee opened a letter containing white powder and was taken to hospital, though tests showed the substance was not harmful.
• Most letters were intercepted by the US Postal Service, but several reached offices and led to evacuations. The FBI and US Postal Inspection Service are investigating, and the FBI declined to say how many letters it had identified or whether it had leads.
• Utah's lieutenant governor said the state would not let the midterm elections be disrupted.