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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA Mail Carrier Took People's Absentee Ballot Requests And Switched Their Party To Republican
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
(38,958 posts)It just happens to be GOP centric shenanigans.
They just cannot help themselves it seems.
Maxheader
(4,371 posts)Fueled by the White House and winger media hacks..
I see them referenced all the time on ag boards forums...
thesquanderer
(11,982 posts)...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
(30,613 posts)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
(16,923 posts)THEY were the ones doing it!
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Not.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Whatever they accuse, they have done.
Andy823
(11,495 posts)mitch96
(13,883 posts)benfranklin1776
(6,443 posts)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 Trumps 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
(2,165 posts)They always project, so I know theyll do it. My polling place is usually quick, so Ill risk it.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)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.
No wonder republicans keep claiming there will be election fraud with mail in ballots, because that is exactly what they would do.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)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
(5,754 posts)that guy who claims to live at the Indiana governor's mansion?
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)is that a new defense....it was only a silly lark.
genxlib
(5,524 posts)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
(64,958 posts)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
(113,037 posts)samnsara
(17,615 posts)Ligyron
(7,622 posts)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
(32,612 posts)This guy would be in a heap o' trouble if he had tampered with the ballots.
In It to Win It
(8,228 posts)Response to Soph0571 (Original post)
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bucolic_frolic
(43,115 posts)JDC
(10,121 posts)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
(1,207 posts)your own self interest.
"Hi! I want to self destruct...."
Goodheart
(5,318 posts)trump wants to abolish the post office, jobs are few and far between, and this guy wants people to vote Republican?
essme
(1,207 posts)I don't know what else to say-
Goodheart
(5,318 posts)The judge should tell him that he will be released when our Constitution is nullified by aliens.
TheBlackAdder
(28,179 posts)Javaman
(62,510 posts)HARD TO BELIEVE!
George II
(67,782 posts)....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
(15,707 posts)WyattKansas
(1,648 posts)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
(12,516 posts)Too many crooked people out there with agendas.
And too many people will just say "isolated incident"
MrModerate
(9,753 posts)a microscopic problem, before you've solved voter suppression, which is huge.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Ilsa
(61,690 posts)ecstatic
(32,676 posts)twisted behavior onto Democrats.
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
(70,479 posts)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
(90 posts)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
(3,056 posts)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
(16,719 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,126 posts)WinstonSmith4740
(3,056 posts)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
(2,227 posts)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
(42,750 posts)yellowcanine
(35,698 posts)Why would someone do that?