Leslie McCrae Dowless

A North Carolina judge has set a trial date next summer for Leslie McCrae Dowless, a political operative accused of ballot fraud involving the 9th District 2018 congressional election, the results of which ultimately got thrown out.

A key subject in a North Carolina ballot fraud investigation was supposed to be sentenced on largely unrelated federal crimes, but that got delayed because he was hospitalized. An attorney for Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. told WRAL-TV he was flown from one southeastern North Carolina hospital to another on Wednesday, hours before his scheduled sentencing hearing in Raleigh.

WILMINGTON — A political operative at the center of a North Carolina absentee ballot fraud investigation made his first court appearance on Monday on…

Former election campaign consultant Leslie McCrae Dowless, who was at the center of a voter fraud scandal in the 9th Congressional District in 2018, has…

RALEIGH — North Carolina legislators finalized changes on Tuesday to beef up mail-in absentee ballot rules and punishments for violations after a voting…