Mark Meadows, the previous chief of employees within the Trump White Home, was faraway from the voter rolls in North Carolina as officers examine whether or not he fraudulently registered to vote and solid a poll within the state in the course of the 2020 presidential election, in accordance with a neighborhood election official.
Mr. Meadows, who helped amplify former President Donald J. Trump’s false claims of voter fraud, was “administratively eliminated” from the ballot ebook by the Macon County Board of Elections on Monday “after documentation indicated he lived in Virginia and final voted within the 2021 election there,” Patrick Gannon, a spokesman for the North Carolina Board of Elections, mentioned in a press release.
Mr. Meadows represented North Carolina in Congress till March 2020, when he went to work within the White Home. In September that yr, Mr. Meadows and his spouse, Debra, registered to vote at a three-bedroom cellular dwelling in Scaly Mountain, N.C. He voted absentee by mail from that tackle, in accordance with the state data.
A report final month in The New Yorker solid doubt on whether or not he ever lived on the dwelling.
Mr. Meadows didn’t instantly reply to phone and textual content messages on Wednesday afternoon.
In 2021, he registered to vote in Virginia, the place he and his spouse personal a condominium within the Washington suburbs, forward of that state’s contentious election for governor.
Although documented circumstances of voter fraud are uncommon, Mr. Meadows and different Republicans have seized on the idea with a purpose to declare, with out proof, that the outcomes of final presidential election are illegitimate.
Reid J. Epstein contributed reporting.
