Dowless, key figure in NC absentee ballot fraud probe, dies

[Kid Berwyn]

Source: AP

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr., the key player in a North Carolina absentee ballot fraud probe that led to a do-over congressional election, has died.

His daughter, Andrea Dowless Heverly, wrote that her father “passed away peacefully" Sunday morning, according to a social media post. He had been diagnosed with an advanced form of lung cancer and died at his daughter's home in Bladen County, his friend Jay DeLancy told The Associated Press in a brief interview. Dowless was in his mid-60s.

The political operative was set to go on trial this summer on more than a dozen state criminal counts related to absentee ballot activities for the 2016 general election and the 2018 primary and general elections. A half-dozen others were also charged.

Witnesses told state officials that Dowless, with help of his assistants, gathered hundreds of absentee ballots from Bladen County in 2018. Those workers testified they were directed to collect blank or incomplete ballots, forge signatures on them and even fill in votes for local candidates.

Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/dowless-key-figure-nc-absentee-214601414.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

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Typical of Corporate McPravda not to mention he was working on behalf of GOP until the sixth ‘graf.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. This asshole was collecting absentee ballots and filling them out

This is the type of ballot harvesting that is very iillegal

[gopiscrap]

2. fuck him

may he rot in hell

[kimbutgar]

3. The article further down state he was working for a Republican candidate

But I wish it was in the first paragraph.

[maxsolomon]

4. Yeah, seems so non-partisan.

Who's cheating? REPUBLICANS.

[Rebl2]

12. They are

very good at projecting aren’t they.

[Achilleaze]

5. Dead Republicons tell no tales

[Turbineguy]

6. Having damaged the country....

he left for parts unknown. Or perhaps republican heaven.

[Qutzupalotl]

7. Should've died in prison.

[lastlib]

8. Well, shit.

He passed away peacefully.

Why couldn't he have died painfully, violently, like he deserved?

[ToxMarz]

9. Her father "passed away peacefully"

in a complete contrast to the intentional havoc and chaos he sowed in life.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

10. And he stole money from social security too

So he’s what? A welfare king?

[Zambero]

11. Now doing time in election fraud hell

Or at least he richly deserves it. Meanwhile, "election integrity!" as his fellow Republicans in state after state "fix the problem and make it all better".

[dalton99a]

13. POS never spent a day in jail