ELKINS, WV (AP) – A West Virginia postal carrier has pleaded guilty to altering mail-in requests for absentee voter ballots.
Thomas Cooper entered the plea Thursday in federal court in Elkins. Cooper was charged in May after eight mail-in requests for absentee voter ballots had their party affiliations altered.
Cooper held a postal contract to pick up mail in the three towns in which the voters live. An investigation found five of the ballot requests were changed from Democrat to Republican with a black ink pen.
On the other three requests, the voters’ party was not changed but the word Republican was later circled in black ink.
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