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BREAKING: Political operative in disputed North Carolina congressional race charged with obstruction, illegal ballot possession.

An operative in North Carolina’s unresolved congressional race has been charged with obstruction and illegal ballot possession related toAccording to testimony and other findings detailed at an election board hearing last week, Leslie McCrae Dowless conducted an illegal “ballot harvesting” operation. He and his assistants are accused of gathering up absentee ballots from voters by offering to put them in the mail.

He was working on behalf of Republican candidate Mark Harris, who had a slim lead in the vote count before a new election was ordered.Three well-known Republicans are staying out of a North Carolina congressional race being re-run after suspicions of ballot fraud tainted the first try. Instead, the GOP’s 50-year hold on the seat will be left to lesser-known candidates.

Mark Harris said Tuesday he will not run in the new election the state elections board ordered unanimously last week. Harris was the apparent winner of the 9th Congressional District race before ballot fraud allegations surfaced. Harris was hospitalized last month by a blood infection and said he suffered two strokes. He said he needs surgery late next month.Catawba College politics professor Michael Bitzer says GOP candidates must distance themselves from the scandal that forced the new race.

 

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Zero tolerance 25 to life no parole. In Jeff Sessions AL a Vietnam veteran is doing life no parole for 12 pot plants. This is way way way way more serious than a pot plant. Lock him up Lock Him Up LOCK HIM UP! And toss the key.

Fixing elections? I’m shocked

Gosh, this is surprising

Republicans cheating to win elections? You don’t say!...

Both parties do it. He's just the latest to get caught.

Shocking... they have to cheat to win

Golly, I hope it was worth it.

Ffs

Lock him up!

Yet it doesn’t crack the surface in breaking news Cohenhearing

Voting by absentee ballot perpetuates Voter Fraud. The only way to combat it is to vote in person at the polls. I hope all this fraud is exposed and American's overwhelmingly decide to do their part & not contribute to the fraud. No political party can claim innocence in this.

About time.

Oh Shnapppp!

Before he worked for Republicans in 2016, he worked for Dems for decades before. But he just NOW did illegal things. Riiiight

Why isn't he in the clink?

GOP are as corrupt, racist, fraudster just as their chief Trump. Cohen has just testified to that effect, switch on your TV's, it's explosive. GOP are toast.

Now do MarkHarrisNC9

Thank God.

_zakali karma

_zakali

*GOP political operative.

WUNDERBAR!!!!!

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