Dowless' work for state lawmaker may have skewed results in 2016 primary
State Sen. Todd Johnson, R-Union, says he didn't notice that he'd won 98 percent of the mail-in votes in Bladen County in the 2016 primary for the 9th Congressional District after hiring McCrae Dowless, the political operative indicted Wednesday on election-related felony charges.
Laura Leslie, WRAL Capitol Bureau chief