Mark Meadows, who previously served as chief of staff to former President Donald Trump and as a congressman for North Carolina, is being investigated by officials from that state over allegations that he may have committed voter fraud.
Meadows was an ardent proponent of the erroneous election fraud claims peddled by Trump and other administration officials following the former president’s loss to President Joe Biden in the 2020 election. He was one of several Trump loyalists in the White House to press the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate such claims.
Unlike the election fraud claims, however, the allegations being made against Meadows hold some weight to them.
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From September 2020 onward, Meadows and his wife have been registered to vote using the address of a mobile home in Macon County, North Carolina. But the person who owns that property says that Meadows has “never spent a night down there,” and that he’s never even seen Meadows visit the property.
Earlier this month, The New Yorker was the first to report that Meadows was registered to vote using an address where he’s never lived. According to their findings, Meadows and his wife live at a property they own in Virginia, though they are not registered to vote in that state.
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