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Mark Meadows, chief of staff for former President Donald Trump and a former N.C. congressman, was removed from North Carolina voter rolls this week after officials confirmed he was also registered to vote in Virginia.
Macon County Board of Elections Director Melanie Thibault confirmed to the Asheville Citizen Times this week that she had removed Meadows the prior day from the county’s active voter list.
Thibault said she consulted North Carolina Board of Elections staff in Raleigh after finding records that Meadows was registered both in Virginia and North Carolina.
“What I found was that he was also registered in the state of Virginia. And he voted in a 2021 election. The last election he voted in Macon County was in 2020,” she said.
The state law under which he was removed was General Statute 163-57, which says, “if a person goes into another state, county, municipality, precinct, ward, or other election district, or into the District of Columbia, and while there exercises the right of a citizen by voting in an election, that person shall be considered to have lost residence in that State, county, municipality, precinct, ward, or other election district from which that person removed.”
The removal of Meadows from the North Carolina voter rolls is just the latest in a string of voting controversies for the former congressman. A New Yorker article in March found Meadows claimed in his voter registration to live in a mobile home he did not own.
The magazine found that there was little evidence of Meadows ever visiting the mobile home. He registered at that address in September 2020 and voted by absentee ballot in that year’s general election, according to his voter record.
The State Bureau of Investigation announced in mid-March it was investigating Meadows for voter fraud following the New Yorker’s report.
