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Former Trump Chief of Employees Mark Meadows has been faraway from the North Carolina voter rolls amid an ongoing investigation to find out whether or not he dedicated voter fraud within the 2020 election.
“The Macon County Board of Elections administratively eliminated the voter registration of Mark Meadows … after documentation indicated he lived in Virginia and final voted within the 2021 election there,” Patrick Gannon, a spokesperson for the North Carolina Board of Elections, instructed us in a press release.
“No formal problem has been acquired by the Macon County Board of Elections,” he added.
Macon County Board of Elections Director Melanie Thibault instructed the Asheville Citizen-Instances that she had eliminated Meadows on April 11. Below North Carolina legislation, voters lose their state residence in the event that they vote in one other state’s election. As Meadows forged a vote in a 2021 Virginia election, he’s thought-about to have misplaced his North Carolina residence, from which he forged an absentee poll within the 2020 presidential election.
Nevertheless, it’s additionally unclear whether or not Meadows ever truly lived in that residence and whether or not his 2020 vote was reputable.
Earlier this yr, on the behest of North Carolina Legal professional Normal Josh Stein, the State Bureau of Investigation opened a probe into Meadows after the New Yorker alleged that he had registered to vote in North Carolina with a residence the place he might not have lived.
A couple of month after Meadows had railed towards voter fraud in a CNN interview, he and his spouse Debra listed a 14-by-62-foot cellular dwelling in Scaly Mountain, North Carolina on their voter registration kinds. Below North Carolina legislation, individuals are required to have lived within the county the place they’re registering for a minimum of 30 days earlier than the date of the election. Nevertheless, in accordance with the property’s former proprietor, Debra Meadows had solely stayed on the Scaly Mountain residence one or two nights, and her husband had by no means stayed there in any respect.
Price revisiting this Meadows traditional from 2020 with @jaketapper.
CNN: There is not any proof on widespread voter fraud
Meadows: There is not any proof there’s not Jake.https://t.co/YfPxw2aseC pic.twitter.com/rM8FIHhaCc
— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) April 13, 2022
Nonetheless, Meadows continued to push Donald Trump’s baseless allegations of widespread voter fraud within the 2020 election and routinely criticized mail-in voting as uniquely vulnerable to fraud. He isn’t the one Trump official who has been accused of voter fraud of late.
We tried to achieve out to Meadows via his lawyer however didn’t hear again.
