Government

Is The Vote Fraud Call Coming From Inside Trump COS Mark Meadows's House? NC Investigators Will Find Out.

You cannot make this shit up.

By  
on
Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Briefs Media At White House

(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

In the waning days of the Trump administration, his ever-loyal chief of staff Mark Meadows pressed the Justice Department to investigate an election fraud theory that involved Italian space lasers, Barack Obama, and bricks of Iranian cash. The former North Carolina congressman repeatedly claimed that victory in 2020 was stolen from Trump by dint of rampant vote fraud. And from his perch at the Conservative Partnership Institute, he’s still flogging the lie that the election was marred by irregularities, and the only solution is for states to make it much harder for citizens to vote.

So it is more than a little ironic that Meadows and his wife Debbie appear to have registered and voted using the address of a mobile home in Scaly Mountain, North Carolina (pop. 312) which they neither live in nor own.

And yet, according to The New Yorker, the couple did just that on September 19, 2020, signing their names under penalty of perjury to a voter registration form which attested that they resided in the fourteen-by-sixty-two-foot vacation home the Meadows family rented out once or twice a few years back. At the time, the couple was living in Virginia and had sold their house in North Carolina.

New Yorker reporter Charles Bethea went to some lengths to determine whether the former congressman ever spent a single night in the Scaly Mountain house, but in some sense, the particulars are irrelevant. The registration says “Provide your residential address – where you physically live,” and clearly this ain’t it.

It’s pretty hard to imagine a scenario where this kind of thing happened by accident. But if there is a “Fusilli Jerry”-style explanation, North Carolina’s State Bureau of Investigations is going to find it.

WRAL out of Raleigh first broke the news that law enforcement officials are investigating the couple for potential violation of election laws.

Sponsored

“I am requesting the Attorney General’s Office handle both the advisement of law enforcement agencies as to any criminal investigations as well as any potential prosecution of Mark Meadows,” District Attorney Ashley Welch wrote to Leslie Cooley-Dismukes, criminal bureau chief at the Attorney General’s Office, in a letter obtained by the TV station. Welch, who was endorsed by Meadows, referred the case to the AG based on a potential conflict of interest.

So perhaps Mark Meadows was right after all about there being at least some voter fraud in 2020. And with his passion for electoral integrity, he’ll no doubt be eager to cooperate with authorities to get to the bottom of this very important investigation.

“It was a million to one shot, Doc. Million to one!”

Why Did Mark Meadows Register to Vote at an Address Where He Did Not Reside? [New Yorker]
State investigators asked to probe Meadows’ voter registration [WRAL]

Sponsored

Liz Dye lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.

Topics

, ,