This is so much worse than ‘they hired people to collect absentee ballots’. The Republican party in the Ninth District of North Carolina engaged in a willful stealing of an election.
They guy crying up there, Mike Harris, hired a GOP political consultant by the name of McCrae Dowless. Now, most people don’t know who he is but he is one that actually carried out the criminal enterprise. Dowless is also a felon. Back int eh early 2000s, Dowless was arrested, tried, found guilty, and sent to prison for DOING THE SAME THING IN 2016.
What McCrae Dowless did under the direction of Harris is hire a bunch of people to go and collect the absentee ballots of mainly people of color and the elderly. For North Carolina, third party individuals are not allowed to retrieve your absentee ballots, only immediate family members, so already we have a crime being committed. They would pickup the ballots and ENSURE THAT THE VOTER DIDN’T SEAL THEM. That’s important.
In the testimony in front of the NC General Elections Board, multiple individuals testified that what happened is, they would take the ballots back to Dowless’ house and review the ballots. Most people don’t vote for everything on the ballot. Or they do straight ticket. So, at Dowless’ house, multiple individuals would review the ballots and ensure that app unmarked votes were marked Republican and this is where as one above pointed out, they would destroy a ballot and replace it with a new one and then forge the signature. Or on a majority of the ballots, simply mark the votes for ‘whoever the Republican was’.
Once that identity theft and forging was finished, they would seal the ballot and mail it in on the behalf of these trusting individuals.
Harris up there is crying because his son; a deputy US attorney; testified that he informed his father on 3 separate occasions that was he was doing was illegal and felonies under federal law. Finally, in emails with all sorts of evidence that the irregularities in their county are starting to sound like what happened in 2016. note, that was the last time Dowless was around and hired by a campaign.
The fact that this man, Mike Harris, is getting off scott free for orchestrating and ordering a massive conspiracy to steal an election through identity theft, ballot stealing, ballot stuffing, and voter fraud is appalling. To literally everyone in the country.
And the fact that all of the voices, including the Orange One; have been completely silent over this blatant example of voter fraud and election stealing is deafening.
