Mark Meadows Removed From Voter Rolls Over Fraud Investigation

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Donald Trump claimed for several months during the 2020 presidential election that Democrats were trying to steal the election from him by increasing access to mail-in ballots during the COVID-19 pandemic. So of course it followed that Trump himself voted by mail in the 2020 elections. Donald Trump claimed that people were registered to vote in two states, allowing them to vote twice and commit voter fraud. So of course it followed that several people in Trump’s inner circle, including his press secretary and even some of his children, are registered to vote in more than one state.

Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, has been a vocal proponent of Trump’s Big Lie – the lied that says Trump actually won the 2020 election but the win was stolen from him by Democrats, Republican secretaries of state, election officials, a vote tabulating machine company, Italy, and the long-dead former president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez – so of course it follows that he’s now under investigation in North Carolina for allegedly registering to vote under an address at which he does not live.

Meadows was removed from the voter rolls in North Carolina on Wednesday, which is the standard procedure for those registered who have cast a vote elsewhere since they last voted in the state.

The Citizen Times reported in March that:

‘The state law under which he was removed was General Statute 163-57, which says, “if a person goes into another state, county, municipality, precinct, ward, or other election district, or into the District of Columbia, and while there exercises the right of a citizen by voting in an election, that person shall be considered to have lost residence in that State, county, municipality, precinct, ward, or other election district from which that person removed.”‘

However, there’s nothing routine or standard about the investigation into Meadows’ registration. Meadows listed an address on his registration at a mobile home in Macon County, North Carolina, although neighbors questioned about the address say that Meadows himself has never been there.

In March, The Citizen Times reported that:

‘The State Bureau of Investigation has opened a probe into potential voter fraud by former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows after a Republican Western North Carolina district attorney passed the case on to the state…Meadows, who was a key proponent of the court-rejected claims that widespread voter fraud cost Trump the election, registered and voted using the address of a single-wide Macon County mobile home where owners and neighbors say he never lived or visited.’

While others with less power and money than Meadows typically go to jail for committing these types of alleged crimes – in fact, one “N.C. woman who said she was prosecuted for mistakenly voting while on probation, meanwhile, called for Meadows to face a similar fate” – Meadows’ fate is not yet decided. However, it’s clear from interviews that there is some serious controversy about Meadows’ actions.

According to the story from The New Yorker:

‘Meadows does not own this property and never has. It is not clear that he has ever spent a single night there. (He did not respond to a request for comment.) The previous owner, who asked that we not use her name, now lives in Florida. “That was just a summer home,” she told me, when I called her up the other day. She seemed surprised to learn that the residence was listed on the Meadowses’ forms.’