North Carolina authorities launched an investigation into former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Thursday, following a report earlier this month that revealed a questionable address Meadows registered under to vote in the 2020 election.
This better not take long.
He didnât live there, he illegally registered to vote there while living in VA and then he voted there. This is so open and shut its absurd.
Did Meadows potentially commit voter fraud by listing the Scaly Mountain address on his registration form? Itâs a federal crime to provide false information to register to vote in a federal election. Under President Trump, the White House Web site posted a document, produced by the conservative Heritage Foundation, intended to present a âsamplingâ of the âlong and unfortunate history of election fraudâ in the U.S. Many of the cases sampled involve people who registered to vote at false addresses, including, for instance, second homes that did not serve as a personâs primary residence.
Voting from a home that is not your primary residence seems to be one of the common forms of election fraud that does exist. Seems like a pretty clear cut case that is what Meadows did here.
Also, this section from the New Yorker article deserves some further investigation:
In July of that year, less than a month after the House voted to form a select committee to investigate the January 6th attack on the Capitol building, Donald Trumpâs Save America pacdonated a million dollars to the institute. âThe contribution to Meadowsâs nonprofit stands out both for its size and for its timing,â NBC noted. A few months later, Mark and Debbie Meadows purchased a $1.6-million-dollar lakefront estate in Sunset, South Carolina. According to Thibault, the director of the Macon County Board of Elections, their voter registration remains linked to the Scaly Mountain mobile home.
âSince a few of us have risked voter fraud and gotten away with it so far, it must be the case that millions and millions of other people are doing the same thing,â he remarked when asked. âWeâre doing the country a favor by exposing the practise, sort of a sting operation.â/s
I remember over in Kansas a couple had residence there and in CO. I believe their CO residence was their primary residence. But they voted twice, husband claimed he only once for President in one state. His reasoning was because he paid property taxes in both states he should be able to vote for his preferred local politicians in each state. Canât remember is this during Kobachâs term as KS SoS.
If we didnât have such assholes in MO then there could be a very strong case that Hawley and wife voted illegally. They have a house in VA. They claim a house that his sister owns in Ozark, MO as their primary residency, but I donât think they actually live there. It would telling to see where his oldest two sons are registered for school.
When Hawley won election to MO AG he didnât want to move his family to Jeff City, because he owned a house in Columbia, MO which is 32 miles away. State statue requires state officers live within Jefferson City, poor baby had to rent an apartment in Jeff City.
And he will be found to have committed voter fraud which he could have avoided since NC allows for exceptions for politicos that have to live in DC (hey it is expensive to maintain two residents) BUT if and when he found guilty of doing what he and others have accused democratic voters, he will only receive a mere slap on the wrist.
Yeah, but their extra votes will still count since the conviction always comes after the election certification. Ok, maybe not in carolina where the elections board can invalidate a spoiled election, and did so in 2018 for the NC-09 House rep. But note that they didnât void any of the downballot races even though the 1000-2000 stolen or discarded ballots would have had even more effect on those.
Good reporting, but some style points/nitpicking from a long-time North Carolinian & former newspaperman (back in the days when people were actually called that):
The News & Observer is a newspaper in Raleigh, often referred to as âThe N&Oâ but never called âThe Observer.â
If you say âThe Observer,â youâll be understood to be referring to The Charlotte Observer.
(Its detractors sometimes derisively referred to The N&O as The Noisome Disturber.)