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WV Mailman Charged With Election Fraud

Elkins, in Pendleton County — WV Mailman Thomas Cooper was charged with election fraud after he allegedly took 8 absentee ballots and altered them. And he described his action as a “joke.”

The DOJ reported,

“Cooper, age 47, of Dry Fork, West Virginia, is charged with “Attempt to Defraud the Residents of West Virginia of a Fair Election.” According to the affidavit filed with the complaint, Cooper…

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A few prosecuted under the act:

Matthew Lyon: A Republican congressman from Vermont convicted for writing in a newspaper he edited that John Adams “grasp[ed] for power” and was a “ridiculous pomp”. He was fined $1,000 and spent four months in jail. 

James Callender: Arrested for calling Adams a “hideous hermaphroditical character”. He was fined $200 and was sentenced nine months in jail. 

Benjamin Franklin Bache: Editor of the Aurora Republican newspaper. Escaped prison by dying of yellow fever while awaiting trial. 

William Duane: An Irish immigrant who avoided prosecutions by threatening to expose administration secrets. He also went underground. 

Chalres Holt: Editor of a New London, Connecticut, newspaper

Cooper: 45 SECONDS?!

Titus: No! FOUR TO FIVE SECONDS!

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