mcrae douls. a veteran political operative, he has a record of insurance fraud, he's been accused of messing with ballots before, two years ago, yet he was hired by the republican in this race, mark harris. now, the alleged schema apparently included a practice called ballot harvesting. what's that? a stranger knocks on your door promising to deliver your absentee ballot for you, doing you a favor. it's against the law. some of those ballots might have been changed or just never turned in. the signatures are what tipped this off. that's going to be the key here as they get more and more proof. as you look through the ballots, there are seven people who were witnesses more than ten times each. but only a relative or a near guardian can deliver a ballot for you. so you've got two women who told cnn affiliates that they were paid to collect ballot that they handed over to dowles. listen. >> like i said, i don't know nothing what happened after i dropped them off. >> you don't know certainty whether they were sent to the elections office? >> no, i don't.