Former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has been removed from North Carolina's voter rolls amid an investigation that seeks to determine whether the official committed voter fraud, authorities said.
The former North Carolina congressman and Trump adviser was removed from his state's voter rolls after it was revealed that he registered to vote in September 2020 at a mobile home in Scaly Mountain, N.C. despite not residing there.
Meadows Removed From Voter Rolls
A spokesperson for the North Carolina State Board of Elections, Patrick Gannon, said that the Macon County Board of Elections already moved to remove the official from the rolls for the reason that he last voted in Virginia in 2021.
In a statement, Gannon said that the board administratively removed Meadows from the rolls on Apr. 11 after documents showed he was living in Virginia in 2021 and voted there at the time. He added that there was no formal challenge sent to the Macon County Board of Elections. They then referred questions regarding the issue to the State Bureau of Investigation, as per The Hill.
The director of the Macon County Board of Elections, Melanie Thibault, who confirmed the removal of Meadows, said that Virginia did not inform the board that the former Trump Chief of Staff registered to vote in that state.
A spokesperson for Meadows declined to comment on questions regarding his removal from the North Carolina voter rolls. The last time that Meadows voted in the 2020 general election in the state was through an absentee vote by mail. The absentee ballot request form for the official was submitted in the first week of October 2020.
According to CNN, there were previous reports that Meadows' wife, Debra, dropped her husband's completed ballot at an early voting location on Oct. 26, 2020. The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation confirmed last month that its special investigations unit was looking into the allegations of voter fraud against the former congressman.
Voter Fraud Investigation
While he was working under former United States President Donald Trump's chief of staff, Meadows helped promote the Republican businessman's baseless claims that the 2020 elections were filled with voter fraud.
Three weeks before North Carolina's deadline for the 2020 general election, Meadows listed his residential address as a 14-by-62-foot mobile home. Neither the home nor the property with that address belonged to him and it was unclear if he ever spent one night inside the home.
The small mobile home belonged to a Lowe's retail manager who bought it from a widow living in Florida last summer. The woman, who was not identified by name, said that she had no idea Meadows listed the property as his address in his voter registration form.
If authorities find Meadows guilty of committing voter fraud, it would be at odds with his previous harsh criticisms of Democrats. He and many of Trump's allies have repeatedly warned of potential voter fraud that led up to the 2020 presidential elections. He also described the incident in his book "The Chief's Chief," which was published in December, the Washington Post reported.
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