Second woman says she was paid to collect absentee ballots in North Carolina House race | TheHill

Second woman says she was paid to collect absentee ballots in North Carolina House race | TheHill
"A second woman has come forward claiming that a Bladen County, N.C., electioneer paid her to collect absentee ballots for last month's midterm elections.
Cheryl Kinlaw told WSOCTV, a local news station in Charlotte, N.C., that Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. paid her $100 to collect ballots in their district, adding that Dowless “has been doing it for years."
Kinlaw said that she never mailed the ballots she collected and that she instead handed them over to Dowless.
She said she was unaware that what she was doing was illegal.
Her comments come a day after another woman, Ginger Eason, told the news station that Dowless, the Bladen County Soil and Water Conservation District supervisor, paid her between $75 and $100 to pick up ballots.
Both of them have said they do not know what Dowless did with the ballots.
Dowless has been named twice in sworn affidavits as someone who worked for Republican candidate Mark Harris's campaign as an independent contractor and has been at the center of an investigation into the results of the election in North Carolina's 9th District..."
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