He listed a mobile house he didn’t own as his legal residence before he cast a vote in the 2020 presidential election. Virginia is the other state.
Critics believe Meadows’ voter status, first reported in The New Yorker suggests that Meadows may have been a victim of voter fraud. Meadows’ spokesperson did not return a request for comment on Wednesday.
In September 2020, Meadows listed a Scaly Mountain mobile home as his physical address. This was while he was Trump’s chief-of-staff in Washington. Meadows later voted absentee for the general election via mail. CBS News independently verified the voter record, which is publically available. Trump won by less than 1 percentage point in the battleground state.
The New Yorker spoke with the former owner of Scaly Mountain’s property. It is described as a 14-foot-by-62-foot mobile home with metal roof and a rusty roof. Meadows has never owned the home. According to the previous owner, Meadows’ wife rented out the property for “two months at one point in the past few years”, but only stayed there for one or two nights. According to The New Yorker, neighbors claimed Meadows wasn’t there.
The New Yorker article doesn’t identify her former owner, but she “asked us not to use her name.”
The North Carolina Board of Elections did not comment on the details of the situation and offered only a general statement: “The State Board of Elections investigates credible claims of violations of North Carolina election laws.” The State Board refers cases to U.S. attorneys offices or district attorneys when there is sufficient evidence for them to investigate further or prosecute at their own discretion.
Public records indicate that Meadows registered to vote at Alexandria, Virginia just weeks after he had registered in Scaly Mountain, nearly one year ago. By just 2 percentage points, Republican Glenn Youngkin won Democratic-leaning State.
Meadows often raised the possibility of voter fraud prior to the 2020 presidential election. Polls showed Trump trailing Joe Biden and it was clear that Biden was the legitimate winner in the months after Trump’s defeat. In his 2021 memoir, Meadows repeated the baseless claim that the election had been stolen.
A group of judges, election officials from both parties and Trump’s attorney general concluded that there was no evidence for widespread voter fraud. Experts agree that there are instances of deliberate or unintentional violations in some elections of the voter laws.
Both political critics of Meadows were quick to condemn the ex-White House Chief of Staff.
“It’s almost as if (Meadows), didn’t know that voting records were public records.” a former Rep. Barbara Comstock from Virginia, tweeted this Week, writing that the details seem “more and more damning” while Meadows remains silent.
Bobbie Richardson chaired the North Carolina Democratic Party and demanded an investigation by the state election board and the local District Attorney that covers Scaly mountain into Meadows’ actions.
Richardson stated in writing that Richardson’s hypocrisy in spreading false claims of voter fraud in 2020 to overturn the election, along with the registration information “is unrivalled”.
