McCrae Dowless

Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. (January 3, 1956 – April 24, 2022) was a Republican political operative from the state of North Carolina. Dowless at the center of a fraud investigation following the 2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election. In February 2019, North Carolina's election commission determined that the doubts surrounding the integrity of the election were sufficiently serious that the election results should be invalidated and a new election held. In 1990, Dowless was convicted of felony perjury, and in 1992, he was convicted of felony insurance fraud.