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cynatnite

(31,011 posts)
Mon Dec 3, 2018, 09:31 PM Dec 2018

GOP Operative focus of criminal investigation in NC election fraud/suppression...

Leslie McCrae Dowless, who ran a mail-in ballot program for Republican Mark Harris, is at the center of a burgeoning fraud investigation that has delayed the certification of Harris’s narrow victory and could prompt officials to call for a new election, according to people familiar with the case.

The case is politically fraught for Republicans, who in North Carolina and across the country have pushed for voter-identification laws and other restrictions while warning without evidence about the threat of rampant voter fraud, particularly by immigrants in the country illegally.

The state elections board, which subpoenaed Harris’s campaign Monday, has collected information suggesting that high-level officials may have been aware of the activities, according to people familiar with the probe.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/north-carolina-election-fraud-investigation-centers-on-operative-with-criminal-history-who-worked-for-gop-congressional-candidate/2018/12/03/7b270a90-f6aa-11e8-8c9a-860ce2a8148f_story.html?utm_term=.da3082a59167&wpisrc=al_politics__alert-politics&wpmk=1

Anyone else shocked? Anyone?

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GOP Operative focus of criminal investigation in NC election fraud/suppression... (Original Post) cynatnite Dec 2018 OP
Shocked. Shocked I tell you. Shocked isn't even the word. The Genealogist Dec 2018 #1
IIRC this ratforker has worked for a number of other GOP campaigns... pecosbob Dec 2018 #2

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
1. Shocked. Shocked I tell you. Shocked isn't even the word.
Mon Dec 3, 2018, 10:20 PM
Dec 2018

This particular lot were messy. I hope they pay dearly for it, and that it leads to this kind of Republican shenanigans being stopped.

pecosbob

(7,537 posts)
2. IIRC this ratforker has worked for a number of other GOP campaigns...
Mon Dec 3, 2018, 10:29 PM
Dec 2018

Their were some big names listed in some other article I saw yesterday or the day before.

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