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

[mfcorey1]

An absentee ballot witness said Monday that a Bladen County, N.C., electioneer paid her to collect absentee ballots from last month's midterm elections.

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.

Dowless, known locally as McCrae, has been named twice in sworn affidavits as someone who worked for Republican candidate Mark Harris's campaign against Democrat Dan McCready.

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

WSOCTV said that it has found what appears to be a targeted effort to illegally pick up ballots in Bladen County.

The news station reported that it consistently found the same people signing as witnesses for the people voting, something it notes is unusual. Eason was listed as signing as a witness for 28 submitted and accepted absentee ballot envelopes.

McCready conceded to Harris and said he would not request a recount after being down approximately 700 votes in November.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/woman-says-she-was-paid-to-collect-absentee-ballots-in-north-carolina-house-race/ar-BBQshXx?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout

[watoos]

1. Election fraud not voter fraud is the problem.

[Kurt V.]

2. an important distinction.

media fail.

[still_one]

3. who exactly is Leslie McCrae Dowless, Jr

https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/man-in-center-of-voter-fraud-investigation-in-nc-district-9-race-has-criminal-past/882190369

[Vinca]

4. GOP dirty tricks taken to a whole new level and it sounds like it's been used in past

elections by them. People need to go to jail. The lady who was interviewed should be given immunity to testify against the people who cooked this up. She was a dupe just trying to earn a few bucks. They should either hold a new election or allow the people who didn't return their absentee ballots (because they might have been picked up by the criminal Republicans) to vote again.

[scarytomcat]

5. if the ballots were not turned in ... how did they know she signed them as the witness?

this is strange

[LisaL]

6. How many did she pick and how many did she sign?

In NC, picking up ballots from other people is not legal.
"...it’s illegal to take possession of someone’s ballot,..."
http://www.wfae.org/post/bladen-county-voters-say-harris-supporters-pressed-them-hand-over-mail-ballots#stream/0

[LisaL]

7. There are some ballots that were signed by the same people as witnesses, and potentially some that

were never returned

"What's unclear is also the fate of hundreds of absentee by mail ballots that were requested in Bladen and Robeson counties but never returned to the county boards of elections. Robeson and Bladen had the highest percentage of absentees that were never returned in the state."

http://www.wfae.org/post/bladen-county-voters-say-harris-supporters-pressed-them-hand-over-mail-ballots#stream/0

[TomVilmer]

8. This is why organized voter fraud is so hard to do

You would need a whole lot of underpaid little helpers, and some of them WILL tell the story.

[bluestarone]

9. Sounds to me like something

The new DEM. house should investigate!!!!!