BREAKING: NCSBE releases the 2016 Bladen investigative report referred to prosecutors. Investigation found McCrae Dowless was paying workers to solicit absentee request forms & collect absentee ballots.
Workers were required to deliver ballots to him and push certain candidates
Workers were required to deliver ballots to him and push certain candidates
Anchor @AllisonWSOC9 is going through the 189 page investigative report. Watch @wsoctv at 5 and 6 for updates
The two people accused of collecting ballots in 2016 told investigators Dowless would pay 1/2 of what they earned when they brought absentee request forms to him and the other half when they brought the ballots back #NC09
It is a 278 page document, (not 189 as I said in an earlier tweet). Read the whole thing here: s3.amazonaws.com/dl.ncsbe.gov/S…
Reminder: The Wake Co DA told @AllisonWSOC9 there is an open criminal investigation related to absentee ballots in the 2018 election, 2018 primary and 2016 election
A phone shared by two accused of picking up ballots in 2016 listed Dowless as "McCrae Boss Man"
One of the two texted McCrae on 11/18/16 saying about investigators, "They want to meet with me in the morning... I'm scared and I don't remember half of what we are supposed to say"
One of the two texted McCrae on 11/18/16 saying about investigators, "They want to meet with me in the morning... I'm scared and I don't remember half of what we are supposed to say"
In 2016, one of the two helped a guy from Ohio get an absentee ballot by asking for his SSN and DOB. On 10/1 one of the two texted the Ohio man and asked, "Yo, do u care who u vote for? I got ur ballot in the mail."
