By Aaron Miller-
Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, is facing further investigation over his voting history, after it emerged that he registered for the 2020 election at an address in North Carolina that he allegedly has never used.
Mr Meadows, who as a top Trump staffer who helped then-President Donald Trump peddle election conspiracies and played a key role in the attempt to convince Vice President Mike Pence to delay certification of the 2020 election—is under investigation for potentially committing voter fraud.
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Meadows, a former North Carolina congressman who became Trump’s top aide in March 2020, registered to vote in September 2020 at someone else’s mobile home, in Macon County, North Carolina, and voted in the November election by mail, the New Yorker reported earlier this month. But the owner of the home at the time told the magazine that Meadows had “never spent a night in there.”
North Carolina’s state bureau of investigation was assigned to lead the inquiry after a district attorney referred the matter to the state department of justice special prosecutions section, a department spokeswoman, Nazneen Ahmed, said in an email.
The investigation is in response to claims that Meadows, who represented North Carolina in Congress from 2013 until joining the Trump administration in 2020, registered to vote in September 2020 at an address he did not reside at, own or visit.
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North Carolina voter records show Meadows registered at the Scaly Mountain address on September 22, 2020. He voted absentee by mail in the 2020 general election. That registration is still active.
Records show Meadows voted early in person in Transylvania County in the 2020 March primary, as well as in the 2018 primary and general elections. Before that, he was registered and voted in Jackson County.
The North Carolina voter registration form instructs a person to provide their residential address “where you physically live” , and to check a box indicating whether they have lived at the address for 30 or more days. If not, a person must list the date they moved to that residence.
On September 19th, about three weeks before North Carolina’s voter-registration deadline for the general election, Meadows filed his paperwork. On a line that asked for his residential address—“where you physically live,” the form instructs—Meadows wrote down the address of a fourteen-by-sixty-two-foot mobile home in Scaly Mounta.
In North Carolina, voters must live in the county where they are registering and have resided there for at least 30 days before the election date, according to the state elections board website.
The New Yorker magazine first reported the voter registration allegations earlier this month. The outlet, quoted the director of the Macon county board of elections, saying Meadows was registered at an address in the county and voted absentee in the 2020 general election.
Meadows is currently registered to vote at the same North Carolina address, according to the state elections board’s online database.
Meadows is also the subject of contempt charges by a congressional committee investigating the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol, in which Trump and crowds of extremist supporters of the outgoing former president sought to change the results of the election.
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