Leslie McCray Dowles Jr., a political operative accused of fraud with 2016 ballots, has died, according to his family. Andrea Dowles Heverley announced the news of her father’s death on Sunday morning, saying he had “died peacefully”. A friend told the Associated Press that Dowles had been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. He was in his mid-60s, according to the AP. The alleged organizer of a fraudulent absentee ballot in connection with the 2016 general election and the 2018 primary and general elections, Dowles is scheduled to stand trial this summer on 13 counts, including charges of obstruction of justice and perjury. Dowles, according to the findings of an investigation that culminated in the rejection of the 2018 congressional election, allegedly conspired with the help of his aides to collect and falsify signatures on hundreds of missing ballots. Although the case against Dowles ended with his death, Wake County Attorney Lorraine Freeman said he was committed to prosecuting half a dozen other figures also arrested as a result of the federal investigation.
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