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July 14, 2025

McCrae Dowless

Article

North Carolina political worker pleads not guilty to charges

January 30, 2021 Gary Robertson

RALEIGH — A political operative accused by North Carolina authorities of orchestrating an absentee ballot fraud operation in a 2018 congressional election pleaded not guilty Friday to separate federal charges. Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. of […]

Article

HILL: About those mail-in ballots…

August 11, 2020 Frank Hill

Using mail-in ballots without any safeguards, computer scanning capabilities or advanced security measures might be the most dangerous idea of the progressive left yet. There are 250 million people 18 years of age and older […]

Article

Mark Harris cleared in NC-09 probe

July 15, 2020 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — Former NC Ninth Congressional district candidate Dr. Mark Harris has been cleared in the probe related to absentee ballot harvesting case that triggered a new special election in the district in 2019. “Following […]

Article

Worker at center of N.C. ballot fraud probe seeks local seat

July 9, 2020 The Associated Press

ELIZABETHTOWN — The political operative at the center of a North Carolina absentee ballot fraud investigation has filed for reelection for a local elected position. Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. of Bladen County is running again […]

Opinion

MATTHEWS: The Bladen County Fraud Scandal Is Bipartisan

February 27, 2019 Stacey Matthews

There have been complaints about absentee ballot milling in Bladen County that pre-date the 2018 allegations against McCrae Dowless. But what isn’t widely known about — nor reported on much — is how this long-running […]

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