Mark Harris hired Dowless despite his son’s concerns, which he said he expressed starting in the spring of 2017. The younger Harris told the board Wednesday that he began studying absentee-ballot tallies in the 9th District in June 2016, when his father narrowly lost the Republican primary to then-incumbent Robert Pittenger. In a televised interview in early January, Mark Harris told Spectrum News in Raleigh that reports, including one in The Washington Post, that he had been warned of Dowless’s alleged tactics, were untrue. Yates said he was shocked and disturbed by the testimony,” the younger Harris said. The younger Harris asked the elections board if he could make a few final remarks after lawyers had completed their questioning of him.

Source: Washington Post February 21, 2019 00:05 UTC