McCrae Dowless

The key player in a North Carolina absentee ballot fraud probe that led to a do-over congressional election has died. The family of Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. and a friend confirmed he died Sunday at his daughter's Bladen County home.

A key player in a North Carolina ballot probe that led to a new congressional election has been sentenced to six months in prison for Social Security fraud. Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. received the sentence Thursday in federal court.

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.

McCrae Dowless, a key figure in a North Carolina investigation into ballot fraud in the 20`18 9th Congressional District race, has pleaded guilty to federal charges involving Social Security benefits.

A political operative accused by state authorities of orchestrating an absentee ballot fraud operation in a 2018 congressional election in North Carolina entered not guilty pleas Friday to separate federal charges.

A former North Carolina congressional candidate won't face state charges in an absentee ballot fraud investigation that's already led to indictments…

ELIZABETHTOWN — The political operative at the center of a North Carolina absentee ballot fraud investigation has filed for reelection for a local elected…

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…

A Wake County grand jury today returned new indictments against Bladen County political operative McCrae Dowless and six other people related to the…

Updated: 5:30 p.m.McCrae Dowless, an operative in North Carolina's unresolved congressional race, has been arrested and charged with obstruction and…