Hazmat suits, paramedics, firefighters at the ballot box.

Today authorities in Adams County, Colorado right next to Denver

announced that local law enforcement and the FBI are investigating a ballot they received in an

envelope containing a suspicious powdery substance. It is crazy on its face that

we're at a point here where someone trying to harm election workers is even within the realm of

possibility.

But what makes a story truly remarkable is how the Adams County Clerk is handling all of this.

Back in May, he told ABC news that threats he and his

fellow election workers were facing were so bad that he was wearing a

bulletproof vest to work and he was not alone. Election workers in multiple Colorado counties

underwent active shooter training

and started wearing their own bulletproof vests

because of the threats that have been pouring in

as a result of the big lie.

The Adams County clerk went so far as to ask his employees

to not take the same route home from work every day.

That is how concerned they are for their own safety.

And yet, even when presented with something as terrifying as an envelope containing a suspicious powdery substance,

here is the Adams County Clerk's response. The voter's anonymity is

protected and their constitutional right to vote is in place. Should it be

determined safe, we will move forward with processing this ballot.

It will move forward with processing that ballot, even if it contains a suspicious white powdery

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