Remember the voter fraud that Republicans were so eager to uncover after the 2020 election? Well, it may have been right under their noses all along.
A story recently published by The New Yorker revealed that the voter registration of Republican politician Mark Meadows, who represented North Carolina in Congress and later became President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, is linked to a mobile home in Macon County that he apparently has never owned or resided in.
Meadows’ wife and kids rented the mobile home and stayed there briefly while visiting the area for a Trump rally, the report says, but there’s no evidence to suggest Meadows ever spent any time there. According to both the current and former owners, who were interviewed by The New Yorker, Meadows has never slept nor received any mail at the property.
That could constitute voter fraud under North Carolina law, which says that a person must register to vote at the residence “in which that person’s habitation is fixed, and to which, whenever that person is absent, that person has the intention of returning.” Falsifying information on a voter registration form is a felony in North Carolina, and when false information is used to register to vote in a federal election, it’s a federal crime.
Meadows and his wife registered to vote at this address shortly before the 2020 election. Meadows then voted in the election by mail.