Mark Meadows, who com Chief of staff President Donald Trump backed inaccurate allegations of mass voter fraud, facing growing scrutiny over his own voter registration status. Public records show he is registered to vote in two states, including North Carolina, where he listed a mobile home he did not own as a legal residence weeks before voting in the 2020 presidential election. The other state is Virginia.
Critics say Meadows’ voter turnout, first reported by The New Yorker, suggests the former North Carolina congressman may have committed election fraud himself. A Meadows spokesman did not respond to a message on Wednesday asking for comments.
Meadows included a mobile home in Scaly Mountain, North Carolina, as his physical address in September 2020, while serving as Trump’s chief of staff in Washington. Meadows later cast an absentee ballot for the general election by mail. CBS News independently confirmed the voting record, which is publicly available. Trump won the battlefield status by just over 1 percentage point.
The New Yorker spoke with the former owner of the Scaly Mountain property, described as a 14-foot by 62-foot mobile home with a rusty metal roof, which indicated that Meadows does not own the house and has never owned it. done. The previous landlord said the Meadows woman rented the property “for two months at some point in recent years,” but only spent one or two nights there. Neighbors said Meadows was never present, The New Yorker reported.
The New Yorker story does not identify the former owner’s name, saying he “asked us not to use his name.”
The North Carolina Electoral Board declined to comment on the details of the situation, offering only a general statement: “The State Electoral Board is investigating credible allegations of violations of electoral laws in North Carolina. The State Board shall refer cases to the District Attorney’s Office or to the United States Attorney’s Office for further investigation or prosecution at its discretion. “
Meanwhile, public records show that Meadows registered to vote in Alexandria, Virginia, almost exactly one year after registering in Scaly Mountain and a few weeks before the election of Virginia’s high-profile governor last fall. Republican Glenn Youngkin won the Democratic-leaning state by just under 2 percentage points.
Meadows often raised the possibility of election fraud before the 2020 presidential election, as polls showed that Trump was ahead of Joe Biden, and in the months following Trump’s loss, he suggested that Biden should not he was the legitimate winner. He reiterated baseless claims that the election was stolen from his 2021 memoirs.
A collection of judges, election officials from both parties and Trump concluded the Attorney General himself there was no evidence of widespread electoral fraud. Experts point out that in every election there are isolated incidents of intentional or unintentional violations of electoral laws.
Meadows political critics on both sides quickly condemned the former White House chief of staff.
“Is it almost as if (Meadows) didn’t realize that voting records are public records?” former Rep. Barbara Comstock, a Republican from Virginia, he tweeted this week, writing that the details seem “increasingly doomed” while Meadows remains silent.
Bobbie Richardson, chairman of the Democratic Party of North Carolina, called for a full investigation into Meadows’ actions by the state election board and the local district attorney covering Scaly Mountain.
The “hypocrisy of helping spread false allegations of election fraud in 2020 in an attempt to revoke the election,” combined with registration information, “is unparalleled,” Richardson said in a written statement.
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