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December 12, 2018 - 10:54 AM EST

North Carolina GOP operative accused of once possessing over 800 absentee ballots

A North Carolina GOP operative is accused of being in possession of more than 800 absentee ballots before last month's midterm elections.

Kenneth Simmons of Robeson County, said in a signed affidavit that he and his wife saw Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. holding hundreds of absentee ballots outside a campaign event in the fall, according to the local news affiliate, WECT 6.

The news station noted that Simmons signed the affidavit in front of one of its reporters.

A North Carolina GOP operative is accused of being in possession of more than 800 absentee ballots before last month's midterm elections.

Kenneth Simmons of Robeson County, said in a signed affidavit that he and his wife saw Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. holding hundreds of absentee ballots outside a campaign event in the fall, according to the local news affiliate, WECT 6.

The news station noted that Simmons signed the affidavit in front of one of its reporters.

"During the campaign, my wife and I were working putting out signs for a local candidate," Simmons said in the affidavit, according to a copy provided to the WRAL News by the North Carolina Democratic Party.

"While we were in Dublin attending a meeting of Republicans, we spoke with McRae [sic] Dowless. During the conversation, we noticed that Mr. Dowless had in his possession a large number of absentee ballots. I questioned his reason for having that many ballots. He stated that he had over 800 ballots in his possession. I asked him why he had not turned them in. He sated [sic] you don't do that until the last day because the opposition would know how many votes they had to make up.

"My concern was that these ballots were not going to be turned in."

A North Carolina GOP operative is accused of being in possession of more than 800 absentee ballots before last month's midterm elections.

Kenneth Simmons of Robeson County, said in a signed affidavit that he and his wife saw Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. holding hundreds of absentee ballots outside a campaign event in the fall, according to the local news affiliate, WECT 6.

The news station noted that Simmons signed the affidavit in front of one of its reporters.

"During the campaign, my wife and I were working putting out signs for a local candidate," Simmons said in the affidavit, according to a copy provided to the WRAL News by the North Carolina Democratic Party.

"While we were in Dublin attending a meeting of Republicans, we spoke with McRae [sic] Dowless. During the conversation, we noticed that Mr. Dowless had in his possession a large number of absentee ballots. I questioned his reason for having that many ballots. He stated that he had over 800 ballots in his possession. I asked him why he had not turned them in. He sated [sic] you don't do that until the last day because the opposition would know how many votes they had to make up.

"My concern was that these ballots were not going to be turned in."

Dowless, a Bladen County electioneer, has come under increased scrutiny as part of North Carolina's investigation into the results of the election in the state's 9th District.

In November, Democrat Dan McCready conceded to Republican Mark Harris in their House race when he was down by approximately 700 votes. But the elections board elected not to certify the results, citing “claims of irregularities and fraudulent activities related to absentee by-mail voting.”

A North Carolina GOP operative is accused of being in possession of more than 800 absentee ballots before last month's midterm elections.

Kenneth Simmons of Robeson County, said in a signed affidavit that he and his wife saw Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. holding hundreds of absentee ballots outside a campaign event in the fall, according to the local news affiliate, WECT 6.

The news station noted that Simmons signed the affidavit in front of one of its reporters.

"During the campaign, my wife and I were working putting out signs for a local candidate," Simmons said in the affidavit, according to a copy provided to the WRAL News by the North Carolina Democratic Party.

"While we were in Dublin attending a meeting of Republicans, we spoke with McRae [sic] Dowless. During the conversation, we noticed that Mr. Dowless had in his possession a large number of absentee ballots. I questioned his reason for having that many ballots. He stated that he had over 800 ballots in his possession. I asked him why he had not turned them in. He sated [sic] you don't do that until the last day because the opposition would know how many votes they had to make up.

"My concern was that these ballots were not going to be turned in."

Dowless, a Bladen County electioneer, has come under increased scrutiny as part of North Carolina's investigation into the results of the election in the state's 9th District.

In November, Democrat Dan McCready conceded to Republican Mark Harris in their House race when he was down by approximately 700 votes. But the elections board elected not to certify the results, citing “claims of irregularities and fraudulent activities related to absentee by-mail voting.”

Dowless has been named in multiple sworn affidavits as someone who worked for Harris's campaign. He was declared a "person of interest" in the State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement's investigation last week, according to WRAL News.

Dowless did not respond to a phone message from WRAL News on Tuesday. The electioneer has been accused of running crews door to door in Bladen and Robeson counties in an effort to request absentee ballots from people.

Two women told a local news station in Charlotte, N.C., earlier this month that Dowless paid them to collect ballots. Both of the women said they never handed the ballots in and instead turned them over to Dowless.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/420975-north-carolina-gop-operative-accused-of-once-possessing-over-800-absentee
 

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Still no tweets from the POTUS regarding this issue. Sorry, I forgot about the real big issues he has to deal with:
 

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Harris confirms it was his decision to hire operative at heart of 9th District scandal

BY WBTV

DECEMBER 14, 2018 06:11 PM,

UPDATED DECEMBER 14, 2018 06:11 PM

Republican Mark Harris is speaking publicly for the first time since the North Carolina State Board of Elections voted to not certify the results of his race for Congress.

Harris beat Democrat Dan McCready by 905 votes in the unofficial returns from November’s election. The North Carolina State Board of Elections took a surprise vote to not certify the results of that race in late November, after then-Vice Chairman Joshua Malcolm raised questions of voting irregularities in Bladen and Robeson counties.

The board later voted to hold an evidentiary hearing in the matter by Dec. 218. On Friday, the NCSBE announced that hearing would actually take place Jan. 11.

Much of the public scrutiny surrounding the investigation has been aimed at a man named McCrae Dowless, a Bladen County political operative who worked as a contractor for the Harris campaign in both this year’s primary and general election.

In his interview with WBTV Friday, Harris confirmed that it was his decision to hire Dowless for his campaign. Harris said the decision came after his primary loss to Republican Congressman Robert Pittenger in the 2016 campaign, when the candidate who finished third in that contest handily won the absentee ballots in Bladen County.

Harris said that he believed he was hiring Dowless to run an operation that encouraged voters to request absentee ballots and then, later, helped them cast those ballots by witnessing them and making sure voters put them in the mail. At no time, Harris said, did he think Dowless was doing anything illegal.

“No, absolutely not,” Harris said when asked if he had any indication Dowless was breaking the law in the course of working for his campaign. “Had you had that, would you still continue to employ him?” a WBTV reporter asked.

“No, I would not have,” Harris said. “Again, we kept emphasizing again and again that when he was describing the ballot to us. In fact when you get down to his description of the program, he was being vouched for by a number of other leaders down there.”

Harris said he was caught off guard by the NCSBE’s decision to not certify his race and said the uncertainty has meant he is unable to continue hiring staff or securing office space to move forward as an incoming member of Congress.

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article223134435.html
 
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