AFFIDAVIT OF RICHARD HOPKINS
I, Richard Hopkins, declare as follows:1.I am over the age of eighteen years and am legally competent to makethis declaration. I have personal knowledge of the facts contained herein. If calledupon, I could and would competently testify under oath as to the facts stated herein.2.I am an employee of the United States Postal Service. I work as acarrier in the Erie, Pennsylvania post office.3.Although, as I understand Pennsylvania law, ballots must be postmarked by 8:00 p.m. on Election Day, November 3, 2020 in Pennsylvania,Postmaster Rob Weisenbach directed my co-workers and I to pick up ballots afterElection Day and provide them to him. As discussed more fully below, I heardWeisenbach tell a supervisor at my office that Weisenbach was back-dating the postmarks on the ballots to make it appear as though the ballots had been collectedon November 3, 2020 despite them in fact being collected on November 4 and possibly later.4.On November 5, 2020, as I was preparing my mail for delivery, I sawWeisenbach with Darrell Locke, one of the supervisors for the Erie, Pennsylvania post office having a discussion. Weisenbach and Locke discussed how on November 4, 2020, they had back-dated the postmark on all but one of the ballotscollected on November 4, 2020 to make it appear as though the ballots had instead
Case No. ________________________ AFFIDAVIT OF RICHARD HOPKINS