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Federal prosecutors announced on May 26 that a West Virginia postal carrier has been charged with attempted election fraud after the party affiliations of several mail-in requests for absentee ballots were altered.<\/p>\n

An investigation found that 47-year-old Thomas Cooper, who delivered the forms to the Pendleton County clerk in April, altered the party affiliations of five mail-in requests from Democrat to Republican with a black pen, the West Virginia Attorney Generals office said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Cooper, of Dry Fork, \u201cfraudulently altered eight absentee ballot requests in Pendleton County,\u201d an affidavit claims.<\/p>\n

The party affiliations for another three were unchanged, but the request was altered, the affidavit said.<\/p>\n

Cooper, who because of his job had access to the mail-in requests, admitted to tamper with some of the requests, but said it was intended \u201cas a joke.\u201d The USPS mail carrier was in charge of delivering mail in Franklin, Onego, and Riverton\u2014the three towns that the altered requests came from.<\/p>\n

He said in an interview with Bennie Cogar, an attorney generals office investigator who conducted the investigation on behalf of the secretary of states office, that he didnt know the voters.<\/p>\n

All registered voters in West Virginia received absentee ballot applications last month in a push to encourage mail-in voting amid the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus<\/a> pandemic, commonly known as the novel coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

Cooper has been charged by the U.S. attorneys office with one count of violating a statute that imposes criminal penalties for any individual who \u201cknowingly and willfully deprives, defrauds, or attempts to deprive or defraud the residents of a state of a fair and impartially conducted election process, by \u2026 the procurement, casting, or tabulation of ballots that are known by the person to be materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent under the laws of the state in which the election is held.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cManipulating ones absentee ballot or application is not a laughing matter\u2014its a federal offense,\u201d said<\/a> West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey. \u201cWe must protect the integrity of the ballot box, and this demonstrates the aggressive action we will take to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump has <\/a><\/p>\n

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