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West Virginia mailman admits changing Democratic ballot requests to Republican

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Armadilo

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A West Virginia letter carrier pleaded guilty to election fraud after admitting he changed the political affiliations from Democrat to Republican of people who had requested absentee ballots for the state's primary, according to a report.

Thomas Cooper, 47, of Dry Fork pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of attempted election fraud and one count of injury to the mail, BuzzFeed News reported.
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He faces up to eight years in prison, although prosecutors have agreed as part of the plea deal to call for a lesser sentence.

The clerk of Pendleton County, where Cooper worked across three towns, discovered that eight primary election mail-in absentee requests appeared to have been altered using a black pen, according to the news outlet.

Five requests had been changed so the voters' ballot choice was switched from Democrat to Republican, but the clerk knew some of the voters were not Republicans.
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"[I did it] as a joke," Cooper told investigators about the postal "prank," according to the complaint. " don't even know them."

His attorney Scott Curnutte said his client had engaged in a "silly lark."
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jwk94

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Ah, so this is the fraud Trump was talking about smh. People need to grow up and stop doing stupid shit as a joke.
 
Handicapped Duck

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The voter fraud Republicans love to scream about are actually coming from them, but they'll willfully forget about that.
 

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If the votes had been changed in the other direction Fox News would be screaming about it for the next decade.
 
Sulik2

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And this is why I am against mail in ballots being a solution. We had a huge fraud issue in NC with ballots not being counted. It is way, way to easy for people to interfere with voting with mail in ballots. We are just going to have to risk ourselves to go vote in person and hope we don't get sick or that Russia isn't hacking the voting machines. Getting our votes to count on November is going to be a crap shoot.
 
BorganXI

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Funny how it's always Republicans doing this, while yelling at everyone about the Dems...

Hmmmm.......
 
JetmanJay

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Changing those ballots wouldn't matter for a presidential election though, right? It would just make it to where those voters couldn't vote in the primaries?
 
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