In the signed statement, Kenneth Simmons said that he met Dowless at a local Republican Party meeting in the small town of Dublin. Dublin is located in Bladen County, the epicenter of the election fraud investigation involving absentee ballots.

During that interaction, Simmons wrote, he and his wife saw Dowless with a large number of absentee ballots “in his possession.”

Simmons stated that he asked Dowless why he had so many ballots and that Dowless responded that he was holding onto more than 800. Simmons wrote that he “asked him why he had not turned them in” and that Dowless replied: “you don’t do that until the last day because the opposition would know how many votes they had to make up.”