USPS: No evidence to support Pennsylvania employee’s claim supervisors sought to tamper with votes

By Mike Brest

Published March 18, 2021 12:41pm ET

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U.S. Postal Service investigators found no evidence to support one Pennsylvania USPS employee’s claim that he heard his superiors discuss tampering with mail-in ballots.

Richard Hopkins, identified as a U.S. Postal Service employee in Erie who signed a sworn affidavit claiming postal supervisory officials hatched a plan to backdate ballots mailed after the election, later recanted his story to investigators, according to the Postal Service’s inspector general.

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