Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.WASHINGTON — Leslie McCrae Dowless, the political operative alleged to have run an illegal absentee ballot-gathering operation on behalf of GOP congressional candidate Mark Harris in 2018, was indicted on criminal charges Wednesday by a Wake County grand jury.
The indictment states that he is charged with two counts felonious obstruction of justice, two counts of conspiracy to commit federal obstruction of justice, two counts of possession of absentee ballots and one count of felonious obstruction of justice. Leslie McCrae Dowless poses for a portrait outside of his home in Bladenboro, North Carolina on Dec. 5, 2018.Dowless was hired by Harris to run an absentee ballot operation in the 2018 midterm election in two rural counties in the southeastern part of the state.
After a four-day hearing by the North Carolina Board of Elections, the board unanimously voted to hold a new election in the race because of the taint the controversy has placed on the election.Leigh Ann Caldwell
Lock him up!
The problem in the us isnt voter fraud. Its election fraud, and more often than not the perpetrators are of the Republican variety What a sad and pathetic path the GOP have become.
Lock him up
If you were an actual news org, you might invstigt the republican party for doing this in all states they control. Absentee ballot fraud is the real story. Not in person voter fraud. Media's lazy & only parrot but not verify the GOP lies and talking points. You have to do better.
These anti-American criminals are going down!
But I thought Trump said it was voter fraud in favor of Democrats