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ships behind him so there was no looking back. i would want people to know i m putting my all into this and i don t have a life insurance policy. the republican political operative at the center of a midterm ballot tempering scheme in north carolina s district 9 house race has been indicted. leslie mccray dowless was arrested and charged with seven felonies including obstruction of justice yesterday. four people working for him were also charged. it follows a month s long investigation into the absentee ballot irregular teaitieirregul. mark harris led dan mccready by 905 votes on election day. more charges are likely on the horizon. prosecutors continue to look into who was, quote, aware and helped finance the absentee ballot scheme a nod to potential
the public s confidence in the ninth district seat general election has been undermined to an extent that a new election is warranted. reporter: republican mark harris, the candidate seeking to have his unofficial vote certified, abruptly called for a new election just moments after admitting he d not been entirely truthful under oath. now, harris, who recently suffered from two strokes, blamed that on his health. i thought i was ready to undergo the rigors of this hearing. i m getting stronger. i clearly am not. i struggled this morning with both recall and confusion. reporter: state investigators spent four days outlining what they called an unlawful coordinated absentee ballot scheme. in the middle of the alleged scheme, a political operative hand picked by harris to get out the vote. witnesses testified that dallas paid them to illegally collect witness and sometimes fill in blank races on absentee ballots.
operative who appeared to run the whole illegal absentee ballot scheme and was paid by his campaign. then that contention was shot down yesterday by none other than mark harris s own son. assistant u.s. attorney john harris shows up at the hearing and testifies he e-mailed his own father in writing back in 2017 about worries that dowless was breaking the law. and you wanted to be clear that this could all blow up, be referred to the d.a. yes. there s a legal dimension which i thought they were illegally collecting ballots. all of which led to the republican congressional candidate mark harris, the father of the man seen there testifying kind of against him, a man who had sued previously to be seated in congress because it was not fair. that led him to his emotional reversal before the state board of elections today. here with me now, wsoc tv reporter joe bruno whose stellar reporting on this story just won a poke award this week and has
i certainly have no vendetta against them, no family scores to settle, okay. i think they made mistakes in this process and they certainly did things differently than i would have done them. through the testimony i have listened to over the past three days, i believe a new election should be called. it was a pretty dramatic moment in the courtroom. the move follows testimony this week that a political operative orchestrated an absentee ballot scheme for the republican mark harris to try and sway the race in the state s 9th district. in favor of the republican who, of course, held a slim lead of only 905 votes over his democratic opponent dan mccready in those unofficial votes. joining me is heidi przybyla. the race is not decided. talk about election fraud, how