North Carolina Democrat Dan McCready told CNN on Monday that the scheme to steal the 2018 election in the 9th district went all the way to the top of Republican Mark Harris’s campaign, which he said engaged in “systematic criminal activity” to defraud voters.

“We had heard allegations about this fraud during the campaign, but I had no idea how deep and how wide it went,” McCready said. “It went all the way to the very top of my opponent’s campaign.”

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“We saw the cover-ups of evidence that was not being submitted to the board under subpoena, we saw leaked early voting information from the local board of elections to their campaign,” he continued. “But more than anything, we saw actual systematic criminal activity where my opponent’s campaign hired people to go to voters’ houses and take their ballots, sometimes fill in choices for other candidates. It appears they threw ballots in the trash.”

“There is nothing more sacred in our country than your right to vote,” McCready went on, and placed the blame squarely on Harris who, against the advice of his federal prosecutor son, had hired Republican operative McCrae Dowless to carry out the scheme.

“He built a culture of corruption on his campaign that represents the very worst of our politics,” McCready said, and highlighted his own experiences in the Marine Corps as a contrast. “That’s what we’re missing in Washington. What we saw here was a culture of corruption that went all the way to the top, and who’s suffering the consequences of that are the voters right now who have no representation.”

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