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womanofthehills

(8,734 posts)
Mon Dec 3, 2018, 11:29 PM Dec 2018

Woman says she was paid to collect absentee ballots in North Carolina House race

Ginger Eason told WSOCTV, a local news station in Charlotte, that Leslie McCrae Dowless, Jr. paid her between $75 and $100 to pick up completed absentee ballots for North Carolina's 9th District, the results of which are being officially investigated.

“I was helping McCrae pick up ballots,” Eason said to the news outlet, referring to the Bladen County Soil and Water Conservation District supervisor who appears to be at the center of the probe.

Eason added that she didn't see who people were voting for, but that she never mailed the ballots. Instead, she gave them to Dowless, adding that he did not mention to her that what she was doing was illegal.


When asked by WSOCTV about paying people to pick up ballots, Dowless said that he had no comment.




https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/419561-woman-admits-to-picking-up-absentee-ballots-in-north-carolina?rnd=1543887139&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true
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Woman says she was paid to collect absentee ballots in North Carolina House race (Original Post) womanofthehills Dec 2018 OP
is it starting to unravel? Hermit-The-Prog Dec 2018 #1
I believe it is. sheshe2 Dec 2018 #2
It's the amateurishness of the whole thing that really galls. bluedigger Dec 2018 #3
I'm California people can find out what happened to their ballots. David__77 Dec 2018 #4
Sadly, this has probably been going on for many years. 33taw Dec 2018 #5
bet this goes on in a lot of fascist states elmac Dec 2018 #6

bluedigger

(17,087 posts)
3. It's the amateurishness of the whole thing that really galls.
Mon Dec 3, 2018, 11:40 PM
Dec 2018

They just hired dupes off the street for the leg work.

David__77

(23,443 posts)
4. I'm California people can find out what happened to their ballots.
Tue Dec 4, 2018, 12:59 AM
Dec 2018

I’m thinking that’s not possible in North Carolina.

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