https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article226628829.html
Republican for office Mark Harris used a GOP operative to illegally harvest ballots. Harris’ own son noticed irregularities. Other Republicans had used the same operative in the past.
“Mark Harris, in his third run for political office, would go all in.
Unlike his two previous unsuccessful campaigns, the senior pastor at First Baptist Church in Charlotte resigned from the job he’d held since 2005.
He secured the services of McCrae Dowless, a Bladen County elected official and political operative, whose work in the 2016 primary for another Republican may have cost Harris a seat in Congress.
But Harris’ oldest son, John, a federal law clerk in the D.C. Circuit Court, had noticed anomalies in absentee ballots in Bladen County. He was reviewing publicly available voting information, sorting it and analyzing it.
He noticed a few things: a higher-than-expected percentage of African-American voters were participating in the Republican primary, an extraordinary number of absentee by mail votes as compared to total votes in Bladen County and that many of the absentee ballots that were returned arrived at the Board of Elections on the same day.
On Election Night, in preparation for a possible recount, Harris emailed his father with his suspicions.
“This smacks of something gone awry,” John Harris wrote.
