At center of voter fraud scandal, a convicted felon and 'grassroots' campaigner

A man who worked as an “independent contractor” for Republican Mark Harris’ campaign in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District is a convicted felon who faced jail time for fraud and perjury, according to court records.

Over the last two decades, he has been paid by at least nine candidates, all for get-out-the-vote work, according to state records.

Leslie McCrae Dowless was convicted of felony fraud in 1992 in Iredell County, according to court records. Dowless and his wife were accused of taking out an insurance policy on a dead man and collecting nearly $165,000 from his death, according to a 1991 Fayetteville Observer article. He served more than six months of a two-year prison sentence, according to court records.

Dowless, now 62, was convicted of felony perjury in 1990, according to court records.

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article222459875.html

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At center of voter fraud scandal, a convicted felon and 'grassroots' campaigner (Original post)	octoberlib	Dec 2018	OP
K&R	Scurrilous	Dec 2018	#1
Election fraud, not voter fraud. Nt	lostnfound	Dec 2018	#2
This is not VOTER fraud..	magicarpet	Dec 2018	#3
This case needs to be watched.	Wellstone ruled	Dec 2018	#4
Didn't write the headline. Write a letter to the editor.	octoberlib	Dec 2018	#5
One of the state's top election law experts tell me the envelopes "fit into a pattern of fraud	Gothmog	Dec 2018	#6

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Mon Dec 3, 2018, 02:43 PM

Scurrilous (38,613 posts)

1. K&R

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Mon Dec 3, 2018, 02:57 PM

lostnfound (14,709 posts)

2. Election fraud, not voter fraud. Nt

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Mon Dec 3, 2018, 03:12 PM

magicarpet (9,084 posts)

3. This is not VOTER fraud..

VOTER fraud is perpetrated by the voter, to game the results of an election. This is very rare and infrequent. But the Rethugs go bonkers claiming it is rampant. That way they justify making it harder to vote because they do not want Dems to be able to cast their votes, which helps Rethugs cheat to win elections.

ELECTION FRAUD:

ELECTION fraud is tampering with election results to create a fraudulent winner, but this fraud is perpetrated by someone other than the voter. This ballot fraud is much more common but is attributable to election administrators or someone from a campaign staff, but not by a voter.

Please do not feed the Rethug lie that voter fraud is rampant or call election fraud voter fraud. This permits them to write restrictive voter access laws that make it harder for people to vote and cast their ballot.

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Response to magicarpet (Reply #3)

Mon Dec 3, 2018, 03:18 PM

Wellstone ruled (34,405 posts)