person of interest. dallas, thanks for joining us. thank you. we re in the middle of a snowstorm, an election storm. we re just sitting around here waiting for the locusts next. we hope they are not next. i do hope you do well. we have been watching reports about the snow that is hitting north carolina today. to what is at hantd here, what s the latest you understand in the investigation into the very question of the validity of this investigation? what are you learned in the last 24 hours? let me just say that i very much agree with the democrat candidate mr. mccready. this is so much bigger than this one congressional race. we have a systematic north carolina. a report was filed about bladen county in 2016.
this just in, the fbi is now assisting in north carolina s probe into alleged election fraud there. we are also learning north carolina state board of elections has named leslie m mccrae dowless. mccready withdrew after his concession withdrew his concession after election irregularities were uncovered in a second county. with me drew griffin, who has been spending the last couple of days in north carolina. drew, tell me more about this named person of interest and
the district. that is why mccready took back his concession and why an official investigation is under way. the whole thing comes down to the county. they hired a consulting firm who hired a man named mccray dallas, a local politically operative who also happens to have a felony criminal record. dallas then hired volunteers to go door to door to talk to voters and here s what happened next. i was telling her who i was voting for and she didn t want to hear it so i just didn t say anything else. i just filled out two blocks and i gave it to her. i sign and i gave it to her. it was not sealed. she said she was going to seal it but she never sealed it in front of me and it never got turned in. the atlantic sums it up this way. quote, according to accounts given to reporters and in sworn affidavits, dallas had a team of workers going around collecting absentee ballots from voters
fraud. your vote is your voice. it is our most sacred right as americans is our right to vote. i started my career in the marine corps where i served overseas. could never have an option where i would come back home and see the right to vote under attack by criminals and politicians. let s give this more attention and explain. the unofficial results for the race incredibly close. the republican mark harris and democrat mccready are separated by 905 votes. the state elections board refused to certify the votes because of allegations of, quote, irregularities and concerted fraudulent activities involving mail-in ball lts in
2018, harris got 437 mail-in acty ballots from bladen county. robert pitinger, the sitting representative from that district, got 17 in a race that was basically 50-50. it was decided by 828 votes and yet about 400 different in mail-in ballots. if you look in the general election, even in union county, which harris won, mccready won the mail-in absentee ballots, the only county in the district in which harris won the mail-in absentee ballots was bladen county. where mccray dallas apparently was paying people $75 to $100 a week to go around and pick up those ballots. here now wayne goodwin, the chairman of the democratic party. is it the democratic party s position there should be a new election in north carolina 9? yes, that is our position. we also wanting to ensure that there is no certification of this congressional race until after a full, thorough, public