Postal worker pleads guilty to dumping 2020 ballots

A federal government employee pleaded guilty recently to throwing away ballots in New Jersey.

“A U.S. Postal Service (USPS) mail carrier from Hudson County today admitted he discarded mail, including 99 general election ballots [the post office employee] sent from the Essex County Board of Elections to West Orange, New Jersey, residents, from his assigned routes in Orange and West Orange,” Breaking911.com reported.

Nicholas Beauchene, 26, pleaded guilty after about 1,875 pieces of mail, including 99 general election ballots, were found in dumpsters in North Jersey. https://t.co/PT8LKZJNcI

— NorthJersey.com (@northjersey) May 27, 2021

“Nicholas Beauchene, 26, of Kearny, New Jersey, pleaded guilty to one count of desertion of mails,” the news site said.

Nicholas Beauchene, a mailman in New Jersey, was just charged with throwing away 99 general election ballots

This is AT LEAST the third case of ballots being thrown away by mail carries in two weeks.

But I thought Democrats said "mail-in voter fraud never happens?"

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— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) October 7, 2020

“Law enforcement recovered the mail on Oct. 2, 2020, and Oct. 5, 2020, and placed it back into the mail stream for delivery,” Breaking911.com reported.

It is not clear what his political beliefs are at this time and a prosecutor said it was not politically motivated.

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