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Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has been removed from North Carolina’s voter lists amid an investigation into whether he registered illegally to cast his ballot in the state for the 2020 presidential election.
Macon County, North Carolina, told NBC News that Meadows was removed from the voter list on Monday after reviewing documents showing he lived in Virginia and last voted there in the 2021 election. which include competitions for governor, attorney general and the state legislature.
North Carolina law states that a registered voter is considered to have lost his or her residence in that state if he or she votes in an election in another state. However, it is not illegal for a person registered to vote in North Carolina to vote elsewhere.
A Meadows spokesman had no comment when he contacted NBC and asked about his removal from the North Carolina voter lists, which was first reported by The Asheville Citizen-Times.
North Carolina authorities last month launched an investigation into possible voter fraud by Meadows, a former Republican congressman from the state, after an article in the New Yorker reported that he said his legal residence in September 2020 was a mobile home in Rocky Mountain, North Carolina.
At the time, Meadows was chief of staff to then-President Donald Trump. Under North Carolina law, Meadows may retain his or her place of residence to vote in North Carolina while serving in the District of Columbia.
But The New Yorker reported that Meadows – who backed Trump’s false allegations of widespread ballot fraud that led to his loss in the presidential election – “does not have this [mobile home] property and never had, ”and that it is not clear if he ever spent a night there.
When Meadows registered to vote on September 19, 2020, he indicated the date of application for the next day in a mobile home, the magazine notes.
Lying in voter registrations is a crime.
Citizen-Times reported that Meadows’ wife, Debra, is still registered to vote at the mobile home in Rocky Mountain.
The paper notes that “Macon County Republican voters interviewed by Citizen-Times expressed skepticism that a powerful member of the president’s staff lives in a small house with a rusty roof.”
Citizen-Times last month published an article about a North Carolina woman who said she was being prosecuted for voting wrong while on probation. The woman told the newspaper that Meadows had to be dealt with “the way I was persecuted.”