Thomas Cooper of West Virginia is facing eight years in federal prison.
An election workers sorts vote-by-mail ballots for the presidential primary in Washington state in March.
A West Virginia mail carrier is facing prison time after admitting he attempted election fraud by changing the party registrations of people who had requestedThomas 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.
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.When investigators met with Cooper in late April, he admitted to changing some of the ballots.
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