1. What was the result of this election in November 2019?
-Republican Mark Harris led Democrat Dan McCready by fewer than 1,000 votes
2. What do the state investigators accuse Leslie Dowless of doing to alter the election?
-Leslie McCrae Dowless, directed a coordinated scheme to unlawfully collect, falsely witness, and otherwise tamper with absentee ballots — and workers who say they had assisted him in the scheme delivered damning testimony describing their activities
3. What amendment gave Mr Dowless the right to refuse to testify to the investigators?
-5th
4. What power does the state have to solve this problematic election?
-Under state law, the board is able to call a new election if the basic fairness of the election was tainted. It doesn’t matter whether the number of votes in dispute would have been enough to swing the outcome.
5. What did Mr Dowless do to absentee ballots in order to help the Republican candidate?
-Dowless had used absentee ballot request forms for prior elections to “pre-fill” forms for the 2018 election and sent out workers to find the voters so they could sign the forms and request a ballot — they described this as “Phase One.” He paid them to do this.
-He then got the ballots back and sent them in, but he could ahve weasily tampered with them.
6. What is the makeup of the state election board and how does that ensure fairness?
-made up of three Democrats and two Republicans; this makes it so each party has representation on the board and can make bipartisan agreements
7. What did the group do with incomplete and unsealed absentee ballots?
-the took them to Dowless too and still got paid for them
8. Why is there no danger of prosecution for Mark Harris, the Republican candidate?
-She did emphasize she had never filled in Harris’s name on a ballot, because voters typically only filled in the congressional races and a few others and because everyone thinks he did not know this was happening
-Republican Mark Harris led Democrat Dan McCready by fewer than 1,000 votes
2. What do the state investigators accuse Leslie Dowless of doing to alter the election?
-Leslie McCrae Dowless, directed a coordinated scheme to unlawfully collect, falsely witness, and otherwise tamper with absentee ballots — and workers who say they had assisted him in the scheme delivered damning testimony describing their activities
3. What amendment gave Mr Dowless the right to refuse to testify to the investigators?
-5th
4. What power does the state have to solve this problematic election?
-Under state law, the board is able to call a new election if the basic fairness of the election was tainted. It doesn’t matter whether the number of votes in dispute would have been enough to swing the outcome.
5. What did Mr Dowless do to absentee ballots in order to help the Republican candidate?
-Dowless had used absentee ballot request forms for prior elections to “pre-fill” forms for the 2018 election and sent out workers to find the voters so they could sign the forms and request a ballot — they described this as “Phase One.” He paid them to do this.
-He then got the ballots back and sent them in, but he could ahve weasily tampered with them.
6. What is the makeup of the state election board and how does that ensure fairness?
-made up of three Democrats and two Republicans; this makes it so each party has representation on the board and can make bipartisan agreements
7. What did the group do with incomplete and unsealed absentee ballots?
-the took them to Dowless too and still got paid for them
8. Why is there no danger of prosecution for Mark Harris, the Republican candidate?
-She did emphasize she had never filled in Harris’s name on a ballot, because voters typically only filled in the congressional races and a few others and because everyone thinks he did not know this was happening
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