Dan McCready writes for The Post: 'I ‘lost’ my North Carolina election. Voters wouldn’t stand for fraud.'
Attorney Cynthia Singletary explaining last month that her client, Leslie McCrae Dowless, would not testify without immunity during an investigation into voter fraud in North Carolina. By Dan McCready Dan McCready is a Marine Corps veteran, clean energy entrepreneur, and Democratic candidate for U.S. Congress in North Carolina's 9th District. March 6 at 11:55 AM When I visited Bladen County, N.C.
As many Americans now know, the operative, Leslie McCrae Dowless — who worked on behalf of my Republican opponent, Mark Harris — employed a team of workers who went door to door, taking people’s absentee ballots and filling in vote choices for them . The workers were desperate for a paycheck. For just a couple of bucks a ballot, Americans were stripped of their right to vote, their voices silenced because of where they lived, whom they preferred in the election or the color of their skin.
I had never planned to run for Congress, let alone to become a crusader for voters’ rights. But after the 2016 election, I saw our country being torn apart by politicians who put themselves before the people they were supposed to serve. I felt a calling to run for office, help heal our broken political system and bring people together.
Or so I thought. A couple of weeks later, the State Board of Elections shocked me along with the rest of the country by refusing to certify the results of the race; the vice chair of the board made a vague reference to having learned of “unfortunate activities” in the district. My mind immediately went to Bladen County. I had heard allegations during the campaign about absentee ballot fraud there and had been suspicious. It turned out it was much worse than we thought.
At the federal level, Republicans did not seem to care about election fraud in North Carolina’s 9th District. It did not fit into their narrative of voter fraud, which mostly involved inventing fictional cases of Democratic voters, particularly members of minority groups, gaming the system. In 2017, the State Board of Elections had uncovered an earlier, similar case involving Dowless and referred the election fraud allegations to the U.S. attorney. But almost a year later, the U.S.
Now that the fraud has been exposed and a new election called, it is tempting to wind down my campaign, to start to make up the time I have missed with my little kids and go back to being just a dad and a businessman again. The campaign has already lasted nearly two years, and the new election will not be held until the fall.
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