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Mark Meadows, a former Trump aide, has been removed from North Carolina’s voter lists as the state investigates allegations that he cheated voters in the 2020 election, election officials said Wednesday.
Meadows, who served two terms as a North Carolina congressman before becoming head of President Donald Trump’s White House cabinet, helped promote Trump’s baseless allegations that widespread voter fraud had given Joe Biden’s presidency. But his fading rhetoric about potential voter fraud has met with reports in recent weeks that Meadows registered to vote in 2020 using a mobile home address in North Carolina where he has never stayed.
Those reports prompted North Carolina investigators to launch an investigation into Meadows’ voter registration last month. On Monday, Macon County officials “administratively removed Mark Meadows’ voter registration … after documents show he lives in Virginia and last voted in the 2021 election there,” said North Carolina State Council spokesman Patrick. Gannon in a statement on Wednesday.
The news of Meadows’ removal was first reported by the Asheville Citizen-Times. Meadows’ wife, Debra, remains registered to vote at Rocky Mountain, the newspaper said. A Meadows spokesman declined to comment on Wednesday.
Analysis: Mark Meadows, his wife Debra and their voter registration in the trailer
Under North Carolina status, a person who moves and votes in another state or county of Columbia loses his or her place of residence in North Carolina.
According to a New Yorker report last month, Meadows registered to vote in September 2020, three weeks before the North Carolina general election deadline, citing his 14-by-62-foot mobile home in Scaly Mountain. , NC Neither the apartment nor the property with this address belonged to him and he never lived there, the magazine writes.
It is unclear whether Meadows spent even one night at this address. The small mobile home belongs to Lowe’s retail manager, who bought it last summer from a widow living in Florida. The woman, whom the New Yorker did not identify by name, told the magazine she had no idea Meadows had listed the home as her address on her voter registration form.
If Meadows is found to have defrauded voters, that would run counter to his sharp criticism of Democrats. Along with Trump and many of his allies, Meadows has repeatedly warned of voter fraud leading up to the 2020 election, and he has repeatedly condemned it in his December book, The Boss’s Chief.
In his memoirs, Meadows criticized Democrats’ efforts to increase access to postal voting during the pandemic and linked it to some fraud. He spoke critically of “lowered” standards for postal ballots and suggested that officials might not even bother to check that the signatures on those ballots match what the state has in the archives.
“President Trump has warned us that there is a high probability of fraud related to these bulletins in the mail, and we wanted to be vigilant about that,” Meadows wrote. “So, elsewhere in the White House complex, we had set up an internal brain room that provided information to the campaign team, and we wanted to take any potential challenges with the utmost seriousness.
If one of their analysts finds fraud, he continued, Trump’s lawyers “will take legal action immediately.”
On December 14, the House of Representatives voted to send former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to the Ministry of Justice to refuse to execute a summons. (Video: The Washington Post, Photo: The Washington Post)
In addition to the state investigation into his North Carolina electoral registration, Meadows was subjected to scrutiny for refusing to cooperate with a House of Representatives committee investigating the January 6 uprising in the US Capitol. In December, the House of Representatives voted to recognize Meadows in disrespect to Congress for opposing the committee’s summons.
Meadows remains a key figure in the commission’s investigation because he remained close to Trump between the election and the Capitol attack as the president tried to overturn the results and spread false allegations of voter fraud. Text messages sent to Meadows on Jan. 6 showed Trump’s failure to act quickly to end the uprising, despite real-time pleas from lawmakers, journalists and even his eldest son.
A bipartisan commission is investigating the Capitol storming of the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob that tried to halt the certification of Biden’s Electoral College victory, a siege that killed five people and injured about 140 law enforcement officials.
Felicia Sonmez and Mariana Alfaro contributed to this report.
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