By Mark Steffen | Trending Politics
A Colorado U.S. postal worker has pleaded guilty to trying to rig the 2024 election, according to prosecutors who announced they reached a deal that may involve prison time.
The absurd case involved Vicki Stuart, a 64-year-old former employee of the U.S. Postal Service who on Monday admitted to forgery and identify theft in an attempt to steal ballots and cast votes in the names of other Americans during the 2024 election.
Stuart had been charged with 34 counts in connection with her ballot theft scheme, according to Colorado Public Radio. She and another woman in Mesa County allegedly stole dozens of mail-in ballots as they passed through her truck, opening and filling them out for their preferred candidate rather than delivering them to their intended recipients.
“I feel like I am guilty for the part that I played in it,” Stuart told Judge Brian Flynn about why she accepted prosecutors’ plea deal to ostensibly reduce her sentencing on felony counts.
The postal worker’s scheme fell apart after multiple voters complained to the secretary of state that they had not received their ballots even though the state’s voter tracking system showed that their ballots were in the process of being received and counted. Stuart was a USPS employee in direct contact with the ballots during that time.