A Mail Carrier Took People's Absentee Ballot Requests And Switched Their Party To Republican

[Soph0571]

A West Virginia mail carrier is facing prison time after admitting he attempted election fraud by changing the party registrations of people who had requested absentee ballots for the state's June primary, officials announced Thursday.

Thomas Cooper, 47, of Dry Fork signed an agreement in which he pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to defraud the residents of West Virginia of a fair election and one count of injury to the mail.
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In a May 26 criminal complaint, prosecutors detailed how the Clerk of Pendleton County discovered the eight 2020 primary election COVID-19 mail-in absentee requests appeared to have been altered using a black pen.

Five of the requests had been altered so the voters' ballot choice was switched from Democrat to Republican. But the clerk knew some of the voters were not Republicans, and when she called them they told her they had used blue pens to request Democratic ballots before dropping off the requests at the post office.

[link:https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/mail-carrier-election-fraud-absentee-mail-ballot-west|]

He said he was doing it as a prank?!?!?! Not buying that at all. Gonna guess we will see more reports like this in the next few months, as Trump supporters who have public office of some sort realise that he can not win square and fair and committing election fraud will look like a plan to keep their king in his castle.

[Sherman A1]

1. See there is fraud going on with all these vote by mail ballots

It just happens to be GOP centric shenanigans.

They just cannot help themselves it seems.

[Maxheader]

11. They are the party of hate...

Fueled by the White House and winger media hacks..

I see them referenced all the time on ag boards forums...

[thesquanderer]

14. And the party of projection. I wonder if anyone has a list...

...of all the voter fraud stories where people were actually caught tampering with ballots/applications, voting outside their jurisdiction, whatever, just to tally how many have been R vs. D.

[lagomorph777]

15. Every instance of ballot tampering I have seen is committed by RePutins.

This sort of behavior is extremely rare, but always committed by the same party.

You'll recall last year a NC race had to be re-run and the (R) candidate's people got arrested.

[MyOwnPeace]

18. So THAT'S how they knew it was going on......

THEY were the ones doing it!

[lagomorph777]

20. Yeah, what a surprise.

Not.

[NCjack]

39. Repukes project their criminal behavior onto DEMs and INDs.

[lagomorph777]

40. That's how you can tell what to investigate. Watch what they accuse Dems of.

Whatever they accuse, they have done.

[Andy823]

38. Exactly! nt

[mitch96]

12. As usual the only way they can win is to cheat... nt

[benfranklin1776]

28. Spot on as they ALWAYS project their criminality into others...

When they concoct and shrilly trumpet these preposterous phantasms of “massive voter fraud” they presume others will act with the same criminal malevolence trey do in trying to deny people their most fundamental right to vote in order to win by any illegal means they can get away with. Also they hate mail in ballots because it deprives Trump’s campaign aides,the GRU, from electronically hacking the election. As for this trump supporting postal carrier, who is a chicken enthusiastically supporting Colonel Sanders, given Agent Oranges attempts to destroy the Postal Service, I am glad the Postal Inspection Service, which takes such criminal tampering with the US Mail exceedingly seriously, did not have the same cavalier view.

[onlyadream]

37. This is why I won't do a mail in ballot

They always project, so I know they’ll do it. My polling place is usually quick, so I’ll risk it.

[Sherman A1]

41. Got my mail in ballots yesterday

for myself and my spouse. We will fill them out today and mail them over the weekend for our upcoming August 4th election. Already signed up for November and will continue to do mail in. It is far easier for us and we avoid the middle school gym which seems to have a significant mold problem.

[PatSeg]

52. Yeah

No wonder republicans keep claiming there will be election fraud with mail in ballots, because that is exactly what they would do.

[Mike 03]

2. Good for that clerk!!

What happens in a larger city where the clerk doesn't know who is a Democrat and who isn't? Scary story. But I'm so glad they caught this person, and let him be an example to others not to mess with our vote.

[greymattermom]

3. What about

that guy who claims to live at the Indiana governor's mansion?

[Historic NY]

4. A silly lark....

is that a new defense....it was only a silly lark.

[genxlib]

5. Not sure how this would help them

Even if they were successful in getting the people registered as Republican, they would still vote against trump. The only thing it would stop them from doin is voting in a Primary which would then reveal the problem.

So not only are they evil. They are stupid.

[ProfessorGAC]

7. Creating Doubt?

Helping Bully Barr by showing it's easy to commit fraud in by-mail voting?
We know their only defense is "rampant fraud", but there's no such evidence.
Maybe this guy was trying to gin up evidence.
Just guessing.

[blm]

8. Not an actual postal carrier, but, a contract delivery service worker.

[samnsara]

6. i always take a photo of my completed ballot before i seal it and mail it..

[Ligyron]

49. Now that's a good idea.

We can check to see if our vote is recorded here in Palm Beach County but if not, then this would certainly help establish you did vote and that something was wrong. Not sure if that picture of a ballot would then be counted though, I guess I ought to ask

[FakeNoose]

9. So ... it's the REQUESTS that were changed, not the actual ballots

This guy would be in a heap o' trouble if he had tampered with the ballots.

[In It to Win It]

10. Love that GIF lol

[bucolic_frolic]

16. Who are his handler and accomplices?

[JDC]

17. It always turns out to be "just a joke" w these assholes

I don't know how our system keeps allowing that as a defense.

"I did it as a joke, I don't even know them"

[essme]

19. Jesus Christ- talk about voting against

your own self interest.

"Hi! I want to self destruct...."

[Goodheart]

22. I mean, really, how fucking stupid can you get?

trump wants to abolish the post office, jobs are few and far between, and this guy wants people to vote Republican?

[essme]

24. That's the first thing I thought of-

I don't know what else to say-

[Goodheart]

21. Throw his ass in the slammer and let him rot there

The judge should tell him that he will be released when our Constitution is nullified by aliens.

[TheBlackAdder]

23. Let's drop a conspiracy. Trump "Let's have postal employees alter ballots so we can prove fraud!"

[Javaman]

25. what? another repuke committing election fraud? I find that hard to believe...

HARD TO BELIEVE!

[George II]

26. If he's a mail carrier he knows he can't play "pranks"! US Mail is sacred, one can't even leave....

....a note for a neighbor in a mailbox. That, believe it or not, is illegal.

He's in deep trouble - if not for jail time at least he'll get fired.

[LiberalArkie]

34. He may just be a contract mail carrier. Not a federal employee, just a temp.

[WyattKansas]

51. The SOB had better be banned from ever holding a job with the USPS, Gov't, and Elections again.

Along with being criminally prosecuted and made an example to the rest of republicans. I am sure that it happens a hell of a lot more than people think, since republicans think it is just good competition to cheat in elections to force their dogma.

[oldsoftie]

27. Its really not hard for people to do this. Cases have already been shown many times recently.

Too many crooked people out there with agendas.
And too many people will just say "isolated incident"

[MrModerate]

29. Thus highlighting how ridiculous it is to complain about voter fraud...

…a microscopic problem, before you've solved voter suppression, which is huge.

[Major Nikon]

30. Jokes on you, motherfucker! Here's your prison outfit.

[Ilsa]

31. Is he getting prison time or a huge fine? nt

[ecstatic]

32. It's always a reTHUGlican. They love projecting their sick and

twisted behavior onto Democrats.

[Cosmocat]

43. Y E P

It seems at least 9 out of every 10 of the instances of some kind of election or voter fraud are Rs.

But, this is NEVER pointed out when they are in the media screaming their bullshit about it.

[Botany]

33. Getting ready for the 2020 general election

Republicans need to cheat to win. BTW Mr. Thomas Cooper of Dry Fork, Trump wouldn't let you
into one of his clubs except to mow the lawn.

[2Legit]

35. It is freaking hilarious how many of my Republican friends are constantly bitching

about how unsafe voting by mail is. This just proves that they are right, but not for the reasons they think.

The desperation that Republicans all over the country are feeling right now is pure karma. They allowed themselves to be jammed up by the likes of Limbaugh, Gingrich, Dole, Buchanan, Robertson, etc. in the 90s and because they became the loudest voices in the room, the nasty rhetoric spiraled out of control until they got Petulant Idiot Boy who now occupies the People's House. They see themselves becoming the minority and it isn't feeling so great so they are relying on dirty tricks to drag their sorry asses to the finish line. I guess they figure that they aren't going be able to rely on the Russians this time.

[WinstonSmith4740]

48. Yep...they're reaping what they sowed in the 80's with Reagan.

One of the first things he did was take a meat cleaver to the education budget...they knew then they were going to need a fairly dumb populace in order to go forward in the future. Then they got rid of the Fairness Doctrine, which of course, led to Fox. The same bastards from Nixon on keep popping up.

I've noticed over the years that when Democrats are handed power, they tend to run around in circles for a while...kind of a version of Churchill's comment about how Americans will always do the right thing, after exhausting all other options. Republican immediately get drunk with power and start overreaching.

They jumped on this tiger, and now it's out of control, and turning on them. This is getting better every day.

[Evolve Dammit]

36. There's a legitimate example of voter fraud and should be fully prosecuted.

[sarcasmo]

42. We have a drop box outside the county building for our mail in ballots.

[LudwigPastorius]

44. Lock. Him. Up.

[WinstonSmith4740]

45. I'm not even a little surprised 🤨

I'm sure you guys have noticed that of the .00004% of proven voter fraud, the perpetrator is almost always Republican. We need to watch for this shit because it will come up more and more between now and November. I think even Trump knows he's going to get his ass handed to him, and the rethugs are starting to muddy the water now.

[not_the_one]

46. 1. Offer sizable rewards, 2. Publicize the name 3. Prosecute, 4. Jail

This is the only problem with mail-in voting. They are going to do their best to sabotage it. If it happens enough, the turd will scream RIGGED election, when it was HIS supporters doing the rigging.

But when they do it, it is REALLY hard for them to keep their mouth shut about it, they gotta brag. A sizeable reward would get them offered up as sacrificial lambs, pronto.

Make sure their names are publicized and they go to jail. They will lose friends, business AND spend a little quality time self contemplating... sharing their thoughts with bubba.

We have to win with a tsunami size victory, so as nothing can be misunderstood about WHO American citizens elected.

So, strap on those depends and knee pads (as noted in a prior post on different thread), and do what you have to do, to get out there and VOTE.

Let's make it a party. We'll know how it is going because WE will be the happy ones making change, while THEY will be all glum, doom and gloom. THEIR sad... OUR happy.

[lpbk2713]

47. Cooper doesn't sound like a Russian name?

[yellowcanine]

50. Voter fraud and mail fraud. What a doofus.

Why would someone do that?