A New Hampshire man “who confessed to creating a hoax email leading voters to believe a candidate for state representative was dropping out of a special election has been charged with two crimes, including a felony, by the state’s attorney general,” the Concord Monitor reports.
Carl Gibson said he “probably had one too many beers” before sending out the email, which he considered to be a “prank,” not to be taken seriously. Gibson’s identity was quickly uncovered after his name was found to be embedded in the electronic properties of an attachment to the email.
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