absentee ballot fraud

FILE - This booking photo released Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019 by the Wake City-County Bureau of Identification shows Leslie McCrae Dowless. Four people pled guilty Monday, Sept. 26, 2022, to misdemeanors for their roles in absentee ballot fraud in rural North Carolina during the 2016 and 2018 elections. The defendants were associated with Dowless, a political operative in Bladen County whom authorities called the ringleader of the ballot scheme. Dowless died earlier in 2022 before his case went to trial. (Wake City-County Bureau of Identification via AP)

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