Public News Service: Good-government groups speak out after fentanyl sent to CA elections office

01.22.2024 / By Suzanne Potter
Public News Service: Good-government groups speak out after fentanyl sent to CA elections office

Jonathan Mehta Stein, executive director of California Common Cause, said while no one was hurt, the attempt to poison or kill an election worker is despicable. "It's to destabilize our elections and to scare the public servants who run them," Mehta Stein pointed out. "And to make all of us more fearful of participating in our democracy." Mehta Stein blamed the rise in threats to election workers on the litany of false conspiracy theories claiming the 2020 election was rigged. "We have to find a way to reach people who think elections are being stolen in America," Mehta Stein stressed. "And verify for them that not only are their votes being counted, but that the United States and specifically California run some of the most secure elections in the world."

Jonathan Mehta Stein, executive director of California Common Cause, said while no one was hurt, the attempt to poison or kill an election worker is despicable.

“It’s to destabilize our elections and to scare the public servants who run them,” Mehta Stein pointed out. “And to make all of us more fearful of participating in our democracy.”

Mehta Stein blamed the rise in threats to election workers on the litany of false conspiracy theories claiming the 2020 election was rigged.

“We have to find a way to reach people who think elections are being stolen in America,” Mehta Stein stressed. “And verify for them that not only are their votes being counted, but that the United States and specifically California run some of the most secure elections in the world.”

 

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