North Carolina Operative Indicted in Connection with Absentee Voter Fraud

20:34 - 27 February 2019

L. McCrae Dowless Jr., the North Carolina political operative whose illicit voter-turnout effort on behalf of a Republican congressional candidate led the state to order a new election, has been indicted, a North Carolina prosecutor said Wednesday. Four other people were also charged.

Dowless, 63, faces the gravest set of accusations, including three counts of felonious obstruction of justice, and could ultimately face other charges.

The charges are not related to the 2018 general election, which investigators are continuing to examine, but instead focus on the 2016 general election and last year’s primary.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.