Mark Meadows’s 2020 Vote Is Below Investigation in North Carolina

North Carolina officers mentioned on Thursday that they deliberate to analyze whether or not Mark Meadows, who as former President Donald J. Trump’s chief of workers helped amplify false claims of voter fraud in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election, solid a authorized vote in that yr’s presidential race.

The North Carolina Division of Justice has requested the State Bureau of Investigation to look at whether or not Mr. Meadows broke the legislation when he registered to vote, and voted from, a distant cell house the place he didn’t stay, mentioned Nazneen Ahmed, a spokeswoman for Josh Stein, the state legal professional common, who’s a Democrat.

“We have now requested the S.B.I. to analyze and on the conclusion of the investigation, we’ll assessment their findings,” Ms. Ahmed mentioned.

Legislation enforcement officers in Macon County, a rural neighborhood within the mountains of western North Carolina, first turned conscious of questions surrounding Mr. Meadows’s voter registration final week after The New Yorker revealed that he had voted from a house the place he didn’t stay, the native district legal professional, Ashley Welch, wrote in a letter to the state Justice Department.

“Till being contacted by the media, I used to be unaware of any allegations of voter fraud surrounding Mark Meadows,” she wrote.

Mr. Meadows didn’t reply to messages Thursday night. He has not but supplied any public rationalization for his 2020 voter registration.

The letter and the state investigation were first reported on Thursday by WRAL, a tv station in Raleigh, N.C.

North Carolina voter registration information present that Mr. Meadows and his spouse, Debra, registered to vote at a three-bedroom mobile home in Scaly Mountain, N.C., six weeks earlier than the 2020 election. He voted absentee by mail from that tackle, in response to the state information.

The previous proprietor of the Scaly Mountain house informed The New Yorker that she didn’t imagine Mr. Meadows had ever visited the residence. A neighbor informed the journal Ms. Meadows had stayed there just one or two nights.

Earlier than he registered to vote on the Scaly Mountain house, Mr. Meadows had voted in 2018 from a house in Transylvania County, N.C., and in 2016 from Asheville, N.C., in response to North Carolina information.

In 2021, he additionally registered to vote in Virginia, the place he and his spouse personal a condominium within the Washington suburbs, forward of that state’s contentious election for governor.

In her letter, Ms. Welch requested state officers to analyze Mr. Meadows as a result of she had a battle of curiosity. Mr. Meadows, Ms. Welch mentioned, contributed to her 2014 marketing campaign and appeared in political ads for her. On the time, Mr. Meadows was a member of Congress representing japanese North Carolina.

“It’s in the perfect curiosity of justice and the perfect curiosity of the individuals of North Carolina that the Legal professional Common’s workplace handles the prosecution of this case,” Ms. Welch wrote.