Dowless’s operation alone had turned in 592 of the “684 absentee ballots ultimately cast in [Bladen] county.” There were other anomalies as well. Harris won 61 percent of the absentee vote in the county. But only “19 percent of Bladen County’s accepted mail-in absentee ballots were cast by registered Republicans.” Which means “that along with the almost 20% of loyal registered Republicans who voted that method, Harris would have also received almost all the registered unaffiliated voters and/or some Democratic registered voters to make it to 62% [sic] of the vote.”
